H Derek Howse 1919-1998

H Haeckel , Ernst ( 1834 – 1919 )

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was Charles Darwin's foremost champion at the turn of the nineteenth century. More people prior to World War I learned of evolutionary theory through his voluminous publications than through any other source. His Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (Natural history of creation, 1868) went through 12 increasingly augmented German editions (1868–1920) and was tra...

Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton and Heterocycles

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Derek J Roberts ([email protected]) Simon Leigh-Smith ([email protected]) Peter D Faris ([email protected]) Chad G Ball ([email protected]) Helen Lee Robertson ([email protected]) Christopher Blackmore ([email protected]) Elijah Dixon ([email protected]) Andrew W Kirkpatrick (Andrew.Kirkpatrick@a...

The Heart of the Atlantic Constitution : International Economic Stability , 1919 - 1998 NORMAN SCHOFIELD

enough to be relevant in the more rarified, infinite dimensional context of beliefs and very general social choice rules. In the world, however, beliefs need not be convex. An individual may hold two conflicting views, assigning to each differing probabilities of truth, or indeed, as Keynes noted, may be completely uncertain. Because of the failure of convexity, the heart can fail continuity at...

The Magnus-Derek game

We introduce a new combinatorial game between two players: Magnus and Derek. Initially, a token is placed at position 0 on a round table with n positions. In each round of the game Magnus chooses the number of positions for the token to move, and Derek decides in which direction, + (clockwise) or − (counterclockwise), the token will be moved. Magnus aims to maximize the total number of position...