THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE : A SUGGESTION.

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Overlapping Generations: The First Jubilee

Paul Samuelson’s (1958) overlapping generations model has turned 50. Seldom has so simple a model been so influential. Its “wow” factor, and the feeling of surprise at its originality and coolness have not paled with the years. The paper, in spite of its ripe age, still elicits wonder. Starting from the uncontroversial observation that “we live in a world where new generations are always coming...

A q-QUEENS PROBLEM III. PARTIAL QUEENS

Parts I and II showed that the number of ways to place q nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an n× n square chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of n in which the coefficients are essentially polynomials in q. We explore this function for partial queens, which are pieces like the rook and bishop whose moves are a subset of those of the queen. We compute the five highest-order coe...

A q-QUEENS PROBLEM III. PARTIAL QUEENS

Parts I and II showed that the number of ways to place q nonattacking queens or similar chess pieces on an n× n square chessboard is a quasipolynomial function of n in which the coefficients are essentially polynomials in q. We explore this function for partial queens, which are pieces like the rook and bishop whose moves are a subset of those of the queen. We compute the five highest-order coe...

The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle

he two-invasion hypothesis suffers from numerous defects. When pressed with the demand for proof, its advocates admit that real evidence is lacking. Rather, its premise is a matter of interpretation and possibilities. An examination of the reasoning process and the interpretations of evidence used to support this second invasion hypothesis reveals that it has little merit. What are presumed as ...