that "the lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading". It is an entertaining and idiosyncratic work that, as Jane Oppenheimer, its editor, remarks, rambles and repeats itself, and minor points set off digressions that assume epic proportions. The autobiography covers the period between his earliest memories (about 1797) to 1864, and deals in depth with his educati...

We consider how an agent should update her uncertainty when it is represented by a set P of probability distributions and the agent observes that a random variable X takes on value x, given that the agent makes decisions using the minimax criterion, perhaps the beststudied and most commonly-used criterion in the literature. We adopt a game-theoretic framework, where the agent plays against a bo...

Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in Arizona. The Beacon Press in Boston, Massachusetts, published the autobiography in 1954. McLoughlin was a Franciscan Order Roman Catholic priest who advocated for public housing and healthcare for the poor and for minority groups in Phoenix, Arizon...


 This chapter addresses some questions of literary form and biographical method arising from Anthony Burgess’s biographies Ernest Hemingway D. H. Lawrence. A new connection is established between unsuccessful first attempt to write an autobiography in 1977 his growing interest the potential forms biography, which he explored novels non-fiction books 1970s 1980s. close examination two spec...

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...

Darwin's autobiography was never meant quite as such: he wanted to leave some thoughts for his children and grandchildren about his views on his life and how he worked. The first edition did not appear until forty years after his death and was the work of his son, Francis, who edited and compiled the material left to him and his siblings. Darwin claims he was prompted to pen some thoughts becau...

BACKGROUND The practice of surgery had changed little over millennia when Abraham Groves and William Osler attended medical school together in Toronto, Ontario. The invention of anesthesia sparked such rapid development that by the time of Groves' and Osler's deaths, surgical practice resembled the current model. Several priority claims have been attributed to Groves' life in surgery, including...

IN 1859 The British Association met in Aberdeen. A letter' circulated in February of that year, asked for contributions to the Natural History exhibition suggesting that '. . . iftolerably complete (as a little exertion may easilymake it) will prove very interesting and instructive.' M'Kendrick was then an indentured clerk in a lawyers' office, and had assembled a marine aquarium in his lodging...