Brief Biography of Professor Jiang Zejian

This year is the year of Professor Jinag Zejian's 80th birthday. Professor Jiang is aProfessor and a Ph. D supervisor of Jilin University, an honorary director of Institute ofMathematics, Jilin University and the first chief editor of J. Northeastern Mathematics.     

Guido Castelnuovo: Documents for a Biography

In recent years it has been possible to begin the study of the archive of Guido Castelnuovo, one of the most important mathematicians of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. The archive contains a large scientific correspondence, only partially examined, and all the notebooks of lectures given by Castelnuovo in the courses of the last two years of the Italian degree (Laurea) in mathematics. In this paper we discuss the notebooks of the lectures. The history of the Italian school of algebraic geometry is greatly illuminated by this recent discovery. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.Da alcuni anni è in corso lo studio dell'archivio di Guido Castelnuovo, uno degli esponenti più importanti della scuola italiana di geometria algebrica. Oltre ad una ricca corrispondenza scientifica, solo in parte esaminata, sono stati ritrovati recentemente tutti i quaderni delle lezioni dei corsi che Castelnuovo tenne per il secondo biennio della Laurea in matematica. In questo articolo diamo una prima descrizione di questi quaderni. Importanti aspetti della storia della scuola italiana di geometria algebrica possono essere chiariti alla luce di questi nuovi documenti. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.MSC 1991 Subject Classifications: 01A55, 01A60, 01A72, 01A73.     

武崇林教授传略

介绍武崇林先生的生平,20世纪30-40年代,作为上海交通大学的教授,武先生对他的学生有重大影响,其中包括著名数学家吴文俊.     

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The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics, and Geniuses by Noel Annan. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1999, 357 pp., $30.     

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The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960–1980 by Clark Kerr, Albany; State University of New York Press, 1991, xxii + 383 pages, notes, index.

Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide by Sharon B. Merriam and Rosemary S. Caffarella, San Francisco, Oxford: Jossey-Bass, 1991, xx + 376 pages, references, indices.

Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880 by Carl F. Kaestle, et al. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1991, xxiii + 338 pages, appendix, bibliography, index.

Major American Higher Education Issues and Answers in the 1990s by Richard I. Miller, London: Jessica Kingsley, 1990, 219 pages, references, index.     

Short spirals

Previous results for planar curves having monotone curvature (spirals) and limited in length in one way or another are extended by dropping the requirements of convexity of the arc, injectivity of the projection onto the spanning chord, and continuity of the curvature. A more general class of short spiral arcs is thus introduced. The results include W. Vogt’s theorem concerning boundary angles of a convex spiral arc, necessary and sufficient conditions for its existence, and positional inequalities for such arcs. Bibliography: 8 titles.     

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The California Idea: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan: by John Aubrey Douglas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, 460 pp., $55.