○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 1 Michael Drosnin published The Bible Codes [Simon & Schuster] in 1997, in which he claimed messages were hidden in the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible. In his book he claimed he saw the message “assassin who will assassinate” cross the text “Yitzhak Rabin,” Prime Minister of Israel at the time. Shortly thereafter, Rabin was indee...

In 1923, renowned architect Le Corbusier authored what is largely considered to be the bestselling architecture book of all time, Vers Une Architecture ("Towards a New Architecture"). Within the pages of his impassioned manifesto, he claimed that “A house is a machine for living.” Architecture, he claimed, is able to improve people’s lives. For Le Corbusier, Victorian cities were chaotic and da...

The research described in this paper was motivated by an enigmatic entry in Ramanujan’s lost notebook [11, p. 45] in which he claimed, in an unorthodox fashion, that a certain q-continued fraction possesses three limit points. More precisely, he claimed that as n tends to ∞ in the three residue classes modulo 3, the nth partial quotients tend, respectively, to three distinct limits, which he ex...

Dr. Carl Rogers, the American psychologist and founder of what has now become known as person-centred counselling or psychotherapy, has always claimed to be grateful that he never had one particular mentor. He has been influenced by many significant figures often holding widely differing viewpoints; but above all he claims to be the student of his own experience and of that of his clients and c...