Y.N. Khaliullin: Diplomat, Scientist, Writer

The Life Cycle of the Scientific Writer: an Investigation of the Senior Academic Scientist as Writer in Australasian Universities

Creating a Diplomat

Many programs have been written to play two-player games, but few for multiplayer games in which negotiation becomes important. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which players assume the roles of the major protagonists of world war one. It is a game of negotiations; alliances, promises kept and promises broken. In order to survive a player needs help from others. Knowing whom to trust, when ...

Quarreling geneticists and a diplomat.

I N the 1950s the hydrogen bomb was new; it was also fearsome. Some of the test explosions produced debris that was dispersed by high-altitude winds, dropping radioactive fallout over an entire hemisphere. Some geneticists feared that mutations induced by the radiation would constitute a significant genetic hazard to future generations. Other people argued that the tests were a necessary part o...

The global attractivity of the rational difference equation yn = (yn-k + yn-m) / (1 + yn-k yn-m)

This paper studies global asymptotic stability for positive solutions to the equation yn = yn−k + yn−m 1 + yn−k yn−m , n = 0, 1, . . . , with y−m , y−m+1, . . . , y−1 ∈ (0,∞) and 1 ≤ k < m. The paper includes a discussion of stability for a wide class of symmetric rational difference equations which includes the type studied here as well as several other in the recent literature. c © 2006 Elsev...

On the rational recursive sequence yn = A + yn-1/yn-m for small A

This work studies the existence of positive prime periodic solutions of higher order for rational recursive equations of the form yn = A + yn−1 yn−m , n = 0, 1, 2, . . . , with y−m , y−m+1, . . . , y−1 ∈ (0,∞) and m ∈ {2, 3, 4, . . .}. In particular, we show that for sufficiently small A > 0, there exist periodic solutions with prime period 2m +Um + 1, for almost all m, where Um = max{i ∈ N : i...