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Geology Newsletter- 1991, Department Of Geology
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
Oil In Bowling Green: A Lost Chapter In Wku's History, Jonathan Jeffrey
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 …
The Planet, 1991, Volume 21, Issue 01, Peter Donaldson, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University
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.
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
C. S. Lewis, George Macdonald, And Mathematics, David L. Neuhouser
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Schedule (1991), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences
ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991
An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective
An Historical Approach To Precalculus And Calculus, Victor J. Katz
An Historical Approach To Precalculus And Calculus, Victor J. Katz
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
An Alternative Approach To The History Of Mathematics, Claudia Henrion
An Alternative Approach To The History Of Mathematics, Claudia Henrion
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Mathematics: Contributions By Women, Jacqueline M. Dewar
Mathematics: Contributions By Women, Jacqueline M. Dewar
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
On Teaching In The Mathematical Sciences, James M. Cargal
On Teaching In The Mathematical Sciences, James M. Cargal
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal
No abstract provided.
Explorations, Vol. 6, No. 2, Carole J. Bombard, Nick Houtman, William H. Whitaker, Jean M. Andrews, Henry Munson Jr., Jamie Watler, Michael Palmer, Diane J. Garsombke, Thomas W. Garsombke
Explorations, Vol. 6, No. 2, Carole J. Bombard, Nick Houtman, William H. Whitaker, Jean M. Andrews, Henry Munson Jr., Jamie Watler, Michael Palmer, Diane J. Garsombke, Thomas W. Garsombke
Explorations — A Journal of Research
Cover: Untitled #13, Series 2, chalk on paper, by Ronald Ghiz, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Maine.
Articles include:
"Editorial Overview: in this issue," by Carole J. Bombard
"Save the Planet . . . please," by Nick Houtman
"Research and Public Service Recognizing Leadership, Pioneering, and Productivity," Herb Hidu and Stephen Norton
"Private Assistance for Maine’s Hungry," by William H. Whitaker and Jean M. Andrews
"The Ugly Faces of Hunger"
"Explaining the Iranian Revolution," by Henry Munson, Jr.
"Biological Clocks: timing is everything—and everywhere," by Jamie Watler
"Love of Glory and the Common Good: Periclean Democracy and …
The Planet, 1991, Volume 20, Issue 03, Michael J. Lehnert, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University
The Planet, 1991, Volume 20, Issue 03, Michael J. Lehnert, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University
The Planet
No abstract provided.
Graduate Bulletin, 1991-1993, Moorhead State University
Graduate Bulletin, 1991-1993, Moorhead State University
Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)
No abstract provided.
The Planet, 1991, Winter, Michael J. Lehnert, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University
The Planet, 1991, Winter, Michael J. Lehnert, Associated Students Environmental Center, Western Washington University
The Planet
No abstract provided.
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program
WKU Archives Records
The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.
- Alkolibi, Fahad. Bowling Green Urban Heat Island
- Chattin, John. John Grimes' Abandoning of Religion in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Clark, Michelle. Abortion and the Moral Status of the Fetus
- Garrett, Kristy. The Making of a Serial Killer
- Lilley, Elizabeth. Is Environmental Recovery Possible in Prince William Sound Following the Alaskan Oil Spill?
- McMurtry, Brian. Biblical Imagery and Symbols in El Arbol De Oro
- Metzger, Kim. The Rise and Fall …
1991-1992 Nova College James M. Farquhar Center For Undergraduate Studies Catalog, Nova Southeastern University
1991-1992 Nova College James M. Farquhar Center For Undergraduate Studies Catalog, Nova Southeastern University
Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs
No abstract provided.