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Anneli Lax: In Memoriam, Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto Dec 1999

Anneli Lax: In Memoriam, Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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An Informal History Of Classical Rhetoric For Mathematicians (Plato And Aristotle), Phillip Keith, Sandra Z. Keith Jul 1999

An Informal History Of Classical Rhetoric For Mathematicians (Plato And Aristotle), Phillip Keith, Sandra Z. Keith

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Book Reviews: Einstein, A Life, By Denis Brian, And The Silver Horse-Shoe, By Javad Tarjemanov, Harald M. Ness Mar 1999

Book Reviews: Einstein, A Life, By Denis Brian, And The Silver Horse-Shoe, By Javad Tarjemanov, Harald M. Ness

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


The Prospects For Mathematics In A Multi-Media Civilization, Philip J. Davis Mar 1999

The Prospects For Mathematics In A Multi-Media Civilization, Philip J. Davis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Mathematicians Can Be Wrong, Tony Dunlop, Ken Kaminsky Mar 1999

Mathematicians Can Be Wrong, Tony Dunlop, Ken Kaminsky

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Leibniz: His Philosophy And His Calculi, Eric Ditwiler Mar 1999

Leibniz: His Philosophy And His Calculi, Eric Ditwiler

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller Jan 1999

Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

In February of 1999, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Michael Dombeck, placed a moratorium on road building on most roadless areas. In October, President Clinton put forth an initiative to prohibit road building on 40 million acres of roadless area. Such modifications in Forest Service land management decisions is not new as suggested by Char Miller in this look back at early grazing decisions by Pinchot. To be proactive and reactive at the same time in relation to changing social pressures and political realties may be the legacy of the agency.


Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf Jan 1999

Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

Reviews the book `Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society,' by Jean-Claude Schmitt Jr. and translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.


A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman Jan 1999

A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

For the past few days in Harpers Ferry we have been inventing and reinventing American nationalism in a marvelous variegation of scholarly papers. We have heard about nationalism and travel, nationalism and antislavery women, nationalism and male identity--and southern artisans, and black nationalists, and even luxury hotels. Although we try to put ironic distance between ourselves and the more egregious forms of nationalism, the papers seem to share the popular fascination with American identity. We cannot resist staring into history and asking who we are as a nation, how did we come to be so wonderful, and why have we …