John Collins (mathematician) In the BlogOsphere

Computers beat the devil? « Maxwell's Demon

Sir John Collins Squire A Random Walk in Science compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza. God, in return, offers the gift of computers to mathematicians, algebra becomes algorithm and the geometry be revealed once more. ...

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2008 Lesser Known Deaths

Roberta Collins, 64, was Matilda the Hun in “Death Race 2000.” John Phillip Law, 70, was the angel Pygar in “Barbarella.” Beverly Gardland, 82, was in “The Alligator People” whose score was composed by Irvng Gertz, 93. ... John Archibald Wheeler, 96, coined the term “black hole.” Michael Golomb, 98, was one of the first mathematicians to apply normed vector spaces in numerical analysis. (I dunno what that is either.) Richard Knerr, 82, invented the Frisbee. ...

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It's Something That Probably Won't Happen Again | ALCHEssMIST

... Massachusetts (1), Master (1), Matej Guid (1), Materialism (2), Math (2), Mathematician (4), Mathematics (3), Mating pattern (1), Matsuzawa (1), Matthew Devereux (1), Matthew Flinders (1), Mauritius (1), Max Planck Institute (1) ... Performance psychology (1), Persians (1), Personal Matters (1), Pertti Saarilouma (1), Pessimism (1), Peter Green (1), Peter Leko (1), Peter Nagy (1), Petrosian (1), Petrov (1), Phenomena (1), Phil Collins (1), Philanthropist (1) ...

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