Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

A set of q triangles sharing a common edge is called a book of size q. We write β (n,m) for the the maximal q such that every graph G (n,m) contains a book of size q. In this note 1) we compute β ( n, cn ) for infinitely many values of c with 1/4 < c < 1/3, 2) we show that if m ≥ (1/4− α)n with 0 < α < 17, and G has no book of size at least ( 1/6 − 2α ) n then G contains an induced bipartite gr...

Rolf Br€ uggemann and Gisela SchmidKrebs, Verortungen der Seele: locating the soul. Psychiatriemuseen in Europa /Museums of psychiatry in Europe, Frankfurt am Main, Mabuse-Verlag, 2007, pp. 206, illus., d29.90 (paperback 978-3-938304-48-8). Nicholas Coni,Medicine and warfare: Spain, 1936–1939, Routledge/Ca~nada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, NewYork and London, Routledge, 2007, pp. xxv, ...

People need a vast amount of knowledge in order to live in an advanced technological society. Most of this has to be obtained from others by believing what they say and what they have written. Androids and sophisticated AI systems would also have to be able to learn in this way. This obvious fact tends to be overlooked by AI researchers (such as Pollock and Brooks) involved in the design of and...

The aim of this section is to give brief indications of the character, content and cost of new books in the various fields of biology. More books are received by The Quarterly than can be reviewed critically. All submitted books, however, are carefully considered for originality, timeliness, and reader interest, and we make every effort to find a competent and conscientious reviewer for each bo...