THREE BOOKS ON ST PAUL

Three Books on Relativity

The Mathematical Theory of Relativity. By A. S. Eddington. Cambridge, University Press, 1923. VI + 247 pp. The Meaning of Relativity. By Albert Einstein. Translated into English by E. P. Adams. Princeton University Press, 1923. 123 pp. The Theory of General Relativity and Gravitation. By L. Silberstein. New York, Van Nostrand, 1922. IV + 141 pp. In attempting a combined review of these three bo...

St Paul and temporal lobe epilepsy.

Evidence is offered to suggest a neurological origin for Paul's ecstatic visions. Paul's physical state at the time of his conversion is discussed and related to these ecstatic experiences. It is postulated that both were manifestations of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Three books by Christoph Hein

4-Books of three pages

Let H be a 4-uniform hypergraph on an n-element vertex set V containing no 4-book of 3 pages, i.e., a hypergraph of 4 quadruples with vertices {1, 2, . . . , 7} and edges {1234, 1235, 1236, 4567}. Then for n>n0 e(H) ( n/2 2 )( n/2 2 ) . Moreover, here equality is possible only if V (H) can be partitioned into two sets A and B so that each quadruple of H intersects A (and B) in exactly two verti...

On the stable equivalence of open books in three-manifolds

We show that two open books in a given closed, oriented three-manifold admit isotopic stabilizations, where the stabilization is made by successive plumbings with Hopf bands, if and only if their associated plane fields are homologous. Since this condition is automatically fulfilled in an integral homology sphere, the theorem implies a conjecture of J. Harer, namely, that any fibered link in th...