PROFESSOR JOSIAH KEEP

The papers of Josiah Bartlett

That the Western scientific and medical tradition is built on Greek foundations is well known: what is far less obvious is how and why Greek science arose and developed, and what distinguished it from its Egyptian and Babylonian contemporaries. In this'elegant book, Dr. Lloyd addresses himself to these difficult questions and points towards their solution. He examines again the role of magic an...

6 Thucydides ' Criticism of Democratic Knowledge Josiah

I BEGIN WITH A QUANDARY that is very familiar to Martin Ostwald: Classical Athens saw the invention of both democracy and political theory, yet while we have a number of examples of criticism of democracy, no systematic defense of democracy-no democratic theory-survives from an Athenian pen. I propose that the conundrum is best explained by assuming that from the late fifth through the late fou...

Patterns in Eigenvalues: the 70th Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture

Typical large unitary matrices show remarkable patterns in their eigenvalue distribution. These same patterns appear in telephone encryption, the zeros of Riemann’s zeta function, a variety of physics problems, and in the study of Toeplitz operators. This paper surveys these applications and what is currently known about the patterns.

Winsor , Major Professor Albert Choi , Minor Professor

Josiah and the Torah Book: Comparison of 2 Kgs

Theoreticians of narrative literature-narratologists-value the distinction between temporal and causal order in narrative. Both are seen as more or less reflective of a sometimes hypothetical "actual" sequence of events described by the literary artist. E. M. Forster described the difference vividly: "'The king died and then the queen died' is a narrative [temporal order]. 'The king died, and t...