Review: The Mind of Frederick Douglass by Waldo E. Martin, Jr

Frederick Stohlman Jr . Memorial Lecture

Review of C . B . Martin ’ s The Mind in Nature ∗

C. B. Martin’s The Mind in Nature is a manifesto in favor of a comprehensive powersbased ontology, aiming to treat the actual and the modal, the causal and the constitutive, the scientific and the mathematical, and the physical and the mental, all by primary appeal to the notion of an irreducible qualitatively informed disposition (with some substratum thrown in for good measure). Like many man...

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born into the closed society of segregated Georgia, a grandson of sharecroppers not far removed from America's original sin of slavery. This year, he is being honored a day before Barack Obama will place his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible and take the oath of office as the nation's first black president. "The arc of history is long," King reminded us, "but ...

Efficiency Tools In The Speeches Of Martin Luther King, Jr

This thesis represents the results of a computer-aided analysis of aspects of speeches of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Specifically, the analysis has investigated the occurrence of indicators of the efficiency function--tools facilitating the comprehension of a discourse by a hearer or reader--in four speeches of Dr. King. Contrary to the expectations of many who anticipate complex gram...

In Memoriam Frederick J. Almgren Jr., 1933-1997

Fred Almgren was one of the founding editors of Experimental Mathematics. He remained an active editor until mid-1996, when he was found to have myelodysplasia, a form of bone marrow cancer. Subsequently, Fred underwent a risky but potentially eeective treatment at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston: his old marrow cells were destroyed , and he received a marrow cell transplant. He was rele...