Hubert Bost, Pierre Bayle

Hubert Wyers.

Limited, Murex, and the Cape Asbestos Company Limited. Thus in his work he was confronted by the numerous and varied medical hazards of the fine chemicals, metallurgical, and asbestos industries. To all the emerging problems he brought a wide and mature experience, which was enhanced by careful observation, accurate recording, and shrewd judgment. He made important contributions to knowledge of...

Hubert Liston Willcox

The death of Mr. Hubert Liston Willcox, of Warminster, at the early age of 36, occurred on Dec. 3rd, and was due to blood poisoning, resulting from a finger being scratched while assisting at an operation for acute peritonitis. He was educated at King's College Hospital, London, and took the qualifications of L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. in 1901. For the untimely loss of his son under such singularly ...

Bost-Connes type Systems for Function Fields

We describe a construction which associates to any function field k and any place ∞ of k a C-dynamical system (Ck,∞, σt) that is analogous to the Bost-Connes system associated to Q and its archimedian place. Our construction relies on Hayes’ explicit class field theory in terms of signnormalized rank one Drinfel’d modules. We show that Ck,∞ has a faithful continuous action of Gal(K/k), where K ...

Hubert Dreyfus: Humans Versus Computers

Pierre Vermersch

It is absurd and without any scientific interest to try to play off DES against EI, as if the question was to know if one method is better than the other in the absolute. All methodological inventions deserve to be tried and tested. But the question is how apposite are they to their object of study. However, Froese and Gould’s article opens a range of issues that are important and interesting. ...