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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.

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

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

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

An Eighth Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

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

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

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

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

An Alternative Approach To The History Of Mathematics, Claudia Henrion

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Mathematics: Contributions By Women, Jacqueline M. Dewar

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

How Mathematics Teachers Use "Writing To Learn", Susan Hunter

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

On Teaching In The Mathematical Sciences, James M. Cargal

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 19-20, 1991 [Program, 103rd Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Program Summary --- 5
General Session Speakers --- 10
Awards --- 13
Distinguished Fellow --- 13
Distinguished Iowa Scientist --- 14
Symposia Programs --- 15
Poster Session --- 18
Campus Map --- Centerfold
Section Programs --- 19
Agricultural Sciences --- 20
Anthropology --- 21
Botany --- 21
Cellular & Molecular Biology --- 23
Chemical Education --- 27
Chemistry, Inorganic --- 27
Chemistry, Organic --- 29
Conservation --- 31
Earth Science Teaching --- 32
Elementary Science Teaching --- 32
Engineering --- 32
Geology --- 35
Linguistics --- 37
Nursing --- 38
Physics --- 38
Physiology --- 39
Psychology --- 40 …

Program Abstracts, 103rd Session, Iowa Academy Of Science, April 19-20, 1991, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Presentation abstracts from the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Native Americans on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history …

The Iowa Science Teachers Fall Conference, 1991, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Speakers ... 4
Pre-conference Workshops ... 6
General Session ... 9
Concurrent Sessions 1 ... 9
Concurrent Sessions 2 ... 13
Application for Membership ... Centerfold
Registration Fonns ... Centerfold
Luncheon Information ... 17
Concurrent Sessions 3 ... 17
Concurrent Sessions 4 ... 21
Maps ... 25 & 26

Iowa Academy Of Science Directory, 1991-92: Officers, Committees, And Membership Roster, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Table of Contents:

Board of Directors ... 5
Program Directors ... 6
Editors ... 6
Committees ... 8
Sections ... 21
Awards of Merit ... 26
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards ... 28
Past Presidents ... 30
Membership Roster ... 31

Graduate Bulletin, 1991-1993, Moorhead State University

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.

Back Cover

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Index For Volume 98

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

No abstract provided.

Auxin-Regulated Gene Expression, Tom J. Guilfoyle

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

A number of cDNA clones to independent mRNAs that increase in amount after brief exposure to auxins have been isolated. From soybean, sequenced, and characterized. Increases in mRNA abundance can be detected as early as 2.5 minutes after auxin application to excised elongating regions of soybean hypocotyls. Increased transcription rates on the genes which encode the auxin-responsive mRNAs account, at least partly, for the accumulation of mRNAs. A variety of auxins induce the accumulation of the mRNAs, but other plant hormones have no effect on the mRNA abundance. Some of the genes which encode the mRNAs are clustered in the …

Stimulus Response Coupling In Auxin Action, K. R. Libbenga

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

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