Rencontre avec Milton Hatoum

Une rencontre mathématique By Hayden

Suppose that you are given some number of objects that have a set order but have been randomly shuffled. Without any prior information, you are given the task of putting the objects back into their correct order. How many ways could you arrange the objects? How well do you expect to do? Would this change if there were more objects? Recently I was faced with these very questions and, in the proc...

Milton Charles Winternitz

I do not remember my first meeting with Winternitz, but, when the full-time clinical experiment was launched in Baltimore, Winternitz was one of my first customers. He was and still is one of our ablest medical scientists. In his account of William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine, my brother, Simon, speaks of a group which included such brilliant men as MacCallum, Opie, G.H....

Milton : a New , Unique

Petrography: The interior of the stone consists of relatively small (mean grain size 1.6 mm), angular olivine grains (~73 vol%) in an iron metal matrix (Fig. 1). Ferric oxides are abundant. Samples easily fragment because of the weathering and numerous, probably preterrestrial, fractures. Olivine contains numerous small (typically 50 μm diameter) inclusions, visible in the SEM, that consist of ...

Rencontre improbable entre von Foerster et Snowden

En 1976 à Cuernavaca, Heinz von Foerster, fondateur de la seconde cybernétique et précurseur dans le domaine des systèmes complexes, intervient dans un séminaire d'Ivan Illich, penseur de l'écologie politique. Suite à l'analyse par ce dernier de sa notion de contre-productivité – auto-dérégulation et auto-désorganisation d'un système qui devient étranger aux éléments qui le constituent i – von ...

Milton C. Winternitz