The great divide: From viscometer to vasculature

The great divide: from viscometer to vasculature.

It is traditional at the Fåhraeus Award Ceremony for the previous winner to give the laudatio to the new one. This meant that my dear friend, Michel Boisseau, should have given it this year but, for personal reasons, he was unable to attend the meeting. This was sad but we all wished him well. However, it is an ill wind. . . and the result was that I was twice blessed in having a double laudati...

From Euclid’s GCD to Montgomery Multiplication to the Great Divide

Euclid’s method for finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two integers was first described around the year 300 B.C. This simple iterative method is often regarded as the grandfather of all algorithms in Number Theory today. Many advances have been made since then—for example, Berlekamp’s algorithm for multiplicative inverse and Montgomery’s technique for modular multiplication. These bin...

Across The Great Divide

Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is licensed to allow users the freedom to copy, reuse, study and develop the software. As a term which efficiently encompasses both ‘free software’ and ‘open-source’ models, FLOSS may offer music practitioners and researchers the opportunity to develop and use such software without becoming mired in a particular stance. In this article, parallels between ...

The Great Divide

Book Review decades before ultimately being proved right. In this short chapter, the reader also faces the complexities of the many possible mechanisms for cytokinesis, which encourages one to think hard about how the system Cytokinesis in Animal Cells. really works, a prerequisite to marrying classical meth-By Ray Rappaport. ods with newer molecular techniques. New York: Cambridge University P...

The great divide.