100. Geburtstag Adolf Schmidt

Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization: 100 years and more

Festschrift für Erna Lesky zum 70. Geburtstag

The translation is preceded by a short historical note on Maimonides, a brief description of the background to Mishnah Torah and a glossary of technical terms for those not acquainted with Jewish terminology. Although the terseness of the Hebrew language and the difficulties of rendering it into English are referred to, the translation is readable and lucid. There is, however, no indication of ...

Valerie Schmidt

Introduction We have all heard the old joke of school being all about the three “R’s”, Reading ‘Ritin and ‘Rithmatik, but because of increasing class sizes and reported lack of instruction time, writing has been passed over for the more “important” subjects. The advent of computers and the increasing ease of word processing have given teachers the ultimate excuse, but most beginning composition...

Adolf Gru$ nbaum on religious delusions

Gru$ nbaum claims it is possible that all belief in God is a delusion, meaning a false belief which is engendered by irrational psychological motives. I dispute this on the grounds that in many cases belief in God is engendered by purely cultural factors, and this is incompatible with its being engendered by psychological ones. Gru$ nbaum also claims that saying a culturally engendered belief c...

Adolf Hitler had post-encephalitic Parkinsonism.

Adolf Hitler had Parkinson symptoms in 1934, at age 45 years. He may have had transient symptoms in 1923, at age 34 years. Young-onset parkinsonism, during the 1920s, favored a diagnosis of post-encephalitic rather than idiopathic parkinsonism. Hitler had oculogyric crises, phenomena only associated with post-encephalitic parkinsonism. In addition, he had dystonic facial spasms, palilalia and a...