Terence S. Turner (1935-2015)

Tribute: Jeri L. Dobbs: 1935-2015.

Jeri Dobbs was an early pioneer in our field who served with distinction his entire career. One wonders why he was so involved?—probably, initially out of a sense of doing his share in promoting our fledgling profession and then surely as a committed volunteer for other activities as his demonstrated accomplishments manifested. For him, and many of that era, performing well clinically was not e...

In memoriam Prof. Engineer Pompiliu Manea (1935–2015)

On Monday, June 15, 2015 the illustrious and colourful life of Prof. Engineer Pompiliu Manea Ph.D., member of the Romanian Academy of Science, came to a sudden end, just as he was resting in his chair in his apartment in Cluj-Napoca. Pompiliu Manea was born on October 7, 1935 in Purani Commune, Teleorman County, Romania, as a son of an engineer who worked with and on agricultural machines. The ...

Eulogy for Kristian Fauchald (1 July 1935 – 4 April 2015).

Einstein ’ s 1935 Derivation of E � mc 2

Einstein’s 1935 derivation of mass—energy equivalence is philosophically impor­ tant because it contains both a criticism of purported demonstrations that proceed by analogy and strong motivations for the definitions of the ‘new’ dynamical quantities (viz relativistic momentum, relativistic kinetic energy and relativistic energy). In this paper, I argue that Einstein’s criticism and insights ar...

Hilbert ’ s investigations of the foundations of arithmetic ( 1935 )

“Variablengattung” is translated as “type of variables” or “variable type;” “Art von Variablen” as “sort of variables.” “Inhaltlich” is rendered as “contentually,” “methodisch” as “methodical.” The long quotations from Hilbert are in a quote environment, without quotation marks. The German text (and page numbering) is from Hilbert’s Gesammelte Abhandlungen, vol. 3, p. 196–216. Many references i...