This paper treats in detail the life and work of Otto Blumenthal, one of the most tragic figures of the 188 emigré mathematicians from Germany and the Nazi-occupied continent. Blumenthal, the first doctoral student of David Hilbert, was crucial in the publication and communication system of German mathematics between the two World Wars. There has been an unusual revival of interest in his mathe...

Otto Deiters, for whom the lateral vestibular nucleus and the supporting cells of the outer auditory hair cells were named, died in 1863 aged 29. He taught in the Bonn Anatomy Department, had an appointment in the University Clinic, and ran a small private practice. He published articles on the cell theory, the structure and development of muscle fibers, the inner ear, leukaemia, and scarlet fe...

While ther is no evidence that Freud ever had in analysis a leading political figure, he did analyze the sister of one, and made her the basis of an important case study. Dora's brother, Otto Bauer, was an influential Marxist theoretician and leader of the Austrian Socialist Party from 1918 to 1934. Freud's Dora case illuminates the psychodynamics of Otto Bauer's life and career, and a re-exami...

Julia Trommershäuser, Department of Psychology, Giessen University, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10F, D-35394 Giessen, Germany; ph: 01149-641-26118; fax: 01149-641-26119; email: [email protected] Acknowledgement: We thank Paulina Trzcinka, Diana Pittig, and Florian Bayer for help with data collection. DECISION MAKING AND MOVEMENT PLANNING UNDER RISK Julia Trommershäuser, Lauren...

1 Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland 2 School of Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia 3 Centre for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 4 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany 5 Department of Psychiatry, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, ...

We prove one-sided universal bounds on coarsening rates for two kinds of mean field models of phase transitions, one with a coarsening rate l ∼ t and the other with l ∼ t. Here l is a characteristic length scale. These bounds are both proved by following a strategy developed by Kohn and Otto (Comm. Math. Phys. 229 (2002), 375-395). The l ∼ t rate is proved using a new dissipation relation which...

Max-Philipp Stenner,* Robb B. Rutledge,* Tino Zaehle, Friedhelm C. Schmitt, Klaus Kopitzki, Alexander B. Kowski, Jürgen Voges, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and Raymond J. Dolan Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational P...

Gerd Althoff, Otto III. (Gestalten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance), Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft) 1996, 245 S.

‖ In connection with the preceding article by Otto Meyerhof, a few words on Nelson’s significance for the philosophy of mathematics might be added. Nelson was among those philosophers whose style of thinking resulted from a familiarity with the spirit of the exact sciences. Mathematics and physics represented the methodical ideal that he strove to achieve in elaborating his philosophical though...