THE LATE MR. ISAAC BAKER BROWN.

The Benefits of Psychological Surgery: John Scoffern's Satire on Isaac Baker Brown

In her study of mutilating surgical operations on women, Ann Dally drew attention to a pamphlet, The London Surgical Home, by John Scoffern, concerning the activities of the London obstetrician, Dr Isaac Baker Brown. As is now well known, Brown was the leader of a short-lived vogue for treating nervous diseases in women (especially epilepsy, catalepsy and hysteria), thought to be caused by ‘‘pe...

MR imaging features of acquired Brown syndrome.

Brown syndrome describes the inability of a patient to perform an upward gaze while the eye is adducted due to an abnormality of the superior oblique tendon sheath complex. Use of CT in diagnosing the condition has been reported; however, the use of MR imaging has not. We describe a unique case of Brown syndrome in which the initial CT findings were normal, but MR imaging revealed the abnormali...

The Late Mr. John W. Davies

The Peano-baker Series

Abstract. This note reviews the Peano-Baker series and its use to solve the general linear system of ODEs. The account is elementary and self-contained, and is meant as a pedagogic introduction to this approach, which is well known but usually treated as a folklore result or as a purely formal tool. Here, a simple convergence result is given, and two examples illustrate that the series can be u...

A tight Analysis of Brown-Baker-Katseff Sequences for Online Strip Packing

We study certain adversary sequences for online strip packing which were first designed and investigated by Brown, Baker and Katseff (Acta Inform. 18:207– 225) and determine the optimal competitive ratio for packing such Brown-BakerKatseff sequences online. As a byproduct of our result, we get a new lower bound of ρ ≥ 3/2 +√33/6 ≈ 2.457 for the competitive ratio of online strip packing.