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Undergraduates, The Right Questions, And Cayley Produce Results, Gary J. Sherman Dec 1991

Undergraduates, The Right Questions, And Cayley Produce Results, Gary J. Sherman

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

During the summers of 1989, 1990, and 1991, eighteen undergraduates participated in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Rose-Hulman for which the author was the principal investigator. This paper provides some examples of the mathematics discovered during these three summers and discusses the philosophy, environment and process which made these discoveries possible.


Geology Newsletter- 1991, Department Of Geology Dec 1991

Geology Newsletter- 1991, Department Of Geology

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol.1, No. 16

  • Core Research Lab
  • Faculty News
  • Service Staff News
  • Alumni/ Friends/ Former Faculty Notes
  • 1991 Speakers Program
  • New Alumni
  • Awards and Scholarships
  • Geology Club


Test 1656: Ford 5640 (16x4) Diesel 16-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab Nov 1991

Test 1656: Ford 5640 (16x4) Diesel 16-Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURE General Tractors are tested at the University of Nebraska according to the Agricultural Tractor Test Code approved by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of Automotive Engineers or official Nebraska test procedure. The manufacturer selects the tractor to be tested and certifies that it is a stock model. Each tractor is equipped with the common power consuming accessories such as power steering, power lift pump, generator, etc., if available. Power consuming accessories may be disconnected only when the means for disconnecting can be reached from the operating station. An official representative of …


1991 Scholars And Artists Bibliography, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, Friends Of The Michael Schwartz Library Oct 1991

1991 Scholars And Artists Bibliography, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, Friends Of The Michael Schwartz Library

Scholars and Artists Bibliographies

This bibliography was created for the annual Friends of the Michael Schwartz Library Scholars and Artists Reception, recognizing scholarly and creative achievements of Cleveland State University faculty, staff and emeriti


Oil In Bowling Green: A Lost Chapter In Wku's History, Jonathan Jeffrey Oct 1991

Oil In Bowling Green: A Lost Chapter In Wku's History, Jonathan Jeffrey

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

Bowling Green became the center of a five-county oil boom in the late-1910s. Two men working on construction of Western Kentucky University’s Potter Hall were determined to not be left out of the action. Architect William J. Bray and contractor Walter Brashear formed a syndicate to lease local land for oil exploration. In August 1920, WKU’s Board of Regents granted their company, The Great Arch Oil Company, exclusive rights to drill on the school’s farm. The majority of the company’s investors were school faculty and staff. Of the three wells drilled, only one showed promise and it was soon abandoned …


Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 34 Number 1, Fall 1991, Santa Clara University Oct 1991

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 34 Number 1, Fall 1991, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

12 - FROM SLAVERY TO SAINTHOOD? With the impending canonization of Pierre Toussaint, many feel the Church is finally beginning to recognize the contributions of its African-American worshippers. By Kathy Daile-Molle '85

18 - AND THEY SAID IT WOULDN'T LAST 4-Remembering Dave 2 Letters to the Editor 4 Santa Clara Today 10 Santa Clara Sports 32 Alumni Class Notes 42 University Calendar Tales of freshman roommates who beat the odds and stayed friends. By Kathryn Bold '81

22 - HISPANIC CALIFORNIANS AND CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION The second of a two-part article featuring the diaries of a Hispanic student who attended …


The Planet, 1991, Volume 21, Issue 01, Peter Donaldson, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University Oct 1991

The Planet, 1991, Volume 21, Issue 01, Peter Donaldson, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.


Earth News, Fall 1991, Department Of Earth Science, University Of Northern Iowa. Oct 1991

Earth News, Fall 1991, Department Of Earth Science, University Of Northern Iowa.

Earth News

Inside this issue:

--- Year in Review
--- Staff News
--- Graduations, Awards, and Recognitions, 1991
--- Department of Earth Science Seminars Spring 1991
--- Department of Earth Science Seminars Fall 1992
--- News from Alumni
--- Seasons Greetings from the Department of Earth Science


Ua66/7/2 Hilltopper News, Wku Chemistry Oct 1991

Ua66/7/2 Hilltopper News, Wku Chemistry

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Chemistry department.


The Use Of Kindergarten Screening Scores To Identify The Need For Reading Intervention: A Logit Regression Study, Jayn Crail, John Fraas Sep 1991

The Use Of Kindergarten Screening Scores To Identify The Need For Reading Intervention: A Logit Regression Study, Jayn Crail, John Fraas

John W. Fraas

No abstract provided.


Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 13, Wku University Relations Sep 1991

Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 1, No. 13, Wku University Relations

WKU Archives Records

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

  • College News
  • Sponsored Programs
  • Hot off the Press
  • Personnel File

This issue includes articles:

  • Fifth Women's Studies Conference Opens
  • Hardin Planetarium Show Features Sun's Children
  • President Thomas Meredith Appointed to Constitutional Improvement Policy Council
  • WKU to Begin Reaccreditation Process
  • Students Raise $48,715 First Week of Alumni Fund Student Phonathon
  • Phillips, Hugh. Russia's Coup; A Historical Perspective
  • Esion, Sheila. Jim Wayne Miller's Writing Takes New Shape
  • Threads of Compassion: Fabric Art Exhibit by Penny Sisto Opens Tomorrow
  • Shuttle May Have Foiled, but Summer Eclipse …


Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology Aug 1991

Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.


Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 33 Number 4, Summer 1991, Santa Clara University Jul 1991

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 33 Number 4, Summer 1991, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

12 - GEORGE BUSH AND THE QUESTION OF STYLE The president's campaign strategists have had Bush play up the victory in the Persian Gulf and avoid talk of much else. By Rita Beamish '74

17 - MIND OVER MONEY Challenging accepted notions about how to make money in the stock market through research on the psychology of investing. By Kathryn Bold '81

20 - STRESS: THE DEMOCRATIC AILMENT From bricklayers to stock brokers, everyone is susceptible to stress. By Elizabeth Fernandez '79

24 - CHARLES LAMPKIN: ON THE LONG ROAD Remembering the actor and music man who was SCU's artist-inresidence …


Ua3/8/1 John Robinson Professorship Report, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Technology Jun 1991

Ua3/8/1 John Robinson Professorship Report, Wku Ogden College Of Science & Technology

WKU Archives Records

Report by Dr. John Riley, John Robinson Professor of activities for 1990-1991 funded by Ogden Foundation.


Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology Jun 1991

Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Archives Records

Annual report created by and about WKU Geography & Geology.


C. S. Lewis, George Macdonald, And Mathematics, David L. Neuhouser May 1991

C. S. Lewis, George Macdonald, And Mathematics, David L. Neuhouser

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

This paper examines the influence and role of mathematics and mathematicians in the stories of George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis.


Using Mathematics To Teach Calculus, Russell W. Howell May 1991

Using Mathematics To Teach Calculus, Russell W. Howell

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

For the past two years Westmont College has been one of the beta test sites for the calculus reform experiment being conducted at the University of Illinois under the direction of Jerry Uhl. Brown, Porta, and Uhl have created text which is integrated with Mathematica, a very powerful symbol manipulation, graphics, and number crunching software package produced by Wolfram Research, Inc. A preliminary version of this text has just been released [2]. We have used the Illinois materials for an honors course of incoming Freshmen with prior calculus experience. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the curriculum and …


Cantor's Concept Of Infinity: Implications Of Infinity For Contingence, Bruce A. Hedman May 1991

Cantor's Concept Of Infinity: Implications Of Infinity For Contingence, Bruce A. Hedman

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a devout Lutheran whose explicit Christian beliefs shaped his philosophy of science. Joseph Dauben has traced the impact Cantor's Christian convictions had on the development of transfinite set theory. In this paper I propose to examine how Cantor's transfinite set theory has contributed to an increasingly contingent world view in modern science. The contingence of scientific theories is not just a cautious tentativeness, but arises out of the actual state of the universe itself. The mathematical entities Cantor studied, transfinite numbers, he admitted were fraught with paradoxes. But he believed that they were grounded in a …


Can Mathematical Methods Yield Theological Truth?, Jan De Koning May 1991

Can Mathematical Methods Yield Theological Truth?, Jan De Koning

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

This paper discusses the negative impact mathematical methods in theology can have on the church by looking specifically at Arminius and Voetius, Dutch theologians living in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Both Arminius and Voetius used mathematical methodology, although they came to different conclusions. I think their differences were due to their different worldviews, which in turn were fundamentally influenced by their upbringing. Both theologians, however, made the same mistake with their methodology and the church split because of that mistake.


A Tale Of Two Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec May 1991

A Tale Of Two Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

The goal of this paper is to identify some of the discoveries in mathematics during the period from 1820 to 1875 that have profoundly changed the nature of mathematics. To provide a context for this, the author compares some results of mathematics before the year 1820 with those present after 1875. And to humanize this, the author discusses the details of the life and times of two mathematicians, one who was active before 1820 and one who was active after 1875.


How Has Christian Theology Furthered Mathematics?, Gene B. Chase May 1991

How Has Christian Theology Furthered Mathematics?, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

In revising my Bibliography of Christianity and Mathematics to include material prior to the 20th century, it is difficult to know what to include and what to exclude, since Christian presuppositions informed much scholarship in a vague, cultural sort of way. This paper is a first cut at attempting to narrow down candidates for that Bibliography by looking for specific ways in which Christian theology has furthered mathematics.


Reviving The Argument From Design: Detecting Design Through Small Probabilities, William A. Dembski May 1991

Reviving The Argument From Design: Detecting Design Through Small Probabilities, William A. Dembski

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

How small do probabilities of events have to get before we refuse to attribute those events to chance? Smallness of probability is itself not enough since events with extremely small probability occur all the time. But when such events are also prespecified, it becomes difficult to attribute their occurrence to chance. Typically we search for a causal account of how chance was offset. Lacking such a causal story, however, are we still justified in asserting that an extremely improbable prespecified event was not the result of chance? This question is relevant to such diverse areas as prophecy, miracles, parapsychology, gambling, …


Introduction (1991), Robert Brabenec May 1991

Introduction (1991), Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective


Table Of Contents (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences May 1991

Table Of Contents (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective


Schedule (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences May 1991

Schedule (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective


Student Seminars On "Famous Equations", Richard G. Montgomery May 1991

Student Seminars On "Famous Equations", Richard G. Montgomery

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


The Human/Computer Interface: Their Side Or Ours?, R. S.D. Thomas May 1991

The Human/Computer Interface: Their Side Or Ours?, R. S.D. Thomas

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


An Historical Approach To Precalculus And Calculus, Victor J. Katz May 1991

An Historical Approach To Precalculus And Calculus, Victor J. Katz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Augsburg's Humanistic Curriculum Project, Larry Copes, Beverly Stratton May 1991

Augsburg's Humanistic Curriculum Project, Larry Copes, Beverly Stratton

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


An Alternative Approach To The History Of Mathematics, Claudia Henrion May 1991

An Alternative Approach To The History Of Mathematics, Claudia Henrion

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.