Alf J. Jr. Mapp, The Faiths of our Fathers : What America's Founders Really Believed

A report to our founders.

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[The land of our fathers].

Lessons of our fathers.

First, let me begin by apologizing to Beth McNally, our vice president, to my mother and to my wife, and to all the other women who may be offended by the title of my talk today. I mean no insult or discrimination. Rather, I chose this title because I would like to dedicate my comments to the memory of my own father, Franklin Epstein (Figure 1), who was a long-standing member of these associati...

The Mathematics of F. J. Almgren Jr

Frederick Justin Almgren Jr., one of the world’s leading geometric analysts and a pioneer in the geometric calculus of variations, began his graduate work at Brown in 1958. It was a very exciting place and time for geometric measure theory. Wendell Fleming had just arrived and begun his collaboration with Herbert Federer, leading to their seminal paper “Normal and Integral Currents” in 1960 [19...

Editorial: Anthony J. Thomas Jr.

In November, 5th, 2017, on the day Dr. Anthony J. Thomas Jr. would turn 74, he passed away. He was an internationally recognized reputed urologist, that popularized microsurgery in the urological community. Tony was a great friend of Brazilian Urology. He opened the doors of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to Brazilian urologists. When he introduced me to his colleagues during meetings, he alwa...