Afterword to Other Computations

An(other) Afterword on The Bill of Rights

Afterword

For two topics treated in this monograph, there are important recent articles or reports that could not be included in the body of the monograph, primarily because of their recency. The editors take this opportunity to mention some of them here, with apologies for selection bias. The problem posed by the incomplete and possibly inaccurate assessment of the radiation exposure of liquidators is t...

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Francisco J. Varela was a student and collaborator of Humberto R. Maturana. Their pioneering collaboration on Autopoiesis and Cognition reestablished “processes of living” as the principle topic of biological explorations. This topic had dropped out of the discourse of biology after the work of Jacob von Uexküll. Autopoiesis brought a new framework to biology. I say framework because it was not...

Afterword

Afterword to Engaging Young Children in Mathematics

I was initially apprehensive about the invitation to speak at the Conference on Early Childhood Mathematics because I had very little experience working with young children on mathematics. I was invited to the conference as one of the mathematicians, and the other mathematicians expressed similar concerns. Nonetheless, the early childhood teachers, representatives from state education departmen...