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George Washington Carver

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Charles Dickens

An English writer and social critic.

Martha Argerich

Classical concert pianist who is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time.

Hannibal

Carthaginian general and statesman who is widely considered to be one of the greatest military co...

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

An Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, a...

Frances Oldham Kelsey

Frances Oldham Kelsey

A Canadian-born American pharmacologist and physician. Kelsey's career intersected with the passa...

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Italian-French mathematician and astronomer

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What Is and What Might Be the Legacy of Felix Klein?

What Is and What Might Be the Legacy of Felix Klein?

link.springer.com

When we talk about the legacy of Felix Klein, we are interested in the significance of Felix Klein’s work for mathematics education, for our current theory and practice, and above all, for tomorrow’s ideas concerning the teaching and learning of mathematics. We are interested in Felix Klein as a mathematician and as a mathematics teacher, but most of all we are interested in his ideas on teaching and learning mathematics, the problems he saw at university and at high school, and the solutions to these problems that he suggested. We are interested in these solutions because we recognise that...

Karl Pearson and the professional middle class

Karl Pearson and the professional middle class

tandfonline.com

Karl Pearson (1857–1936) is a figure of interest to historians of many areas. The historian of mathematical statistics knows the inventor of the product-moment correlation coefficient and the chi square test; the historian of philosophy knows the author of the Grammar of science; the historian of genetics knows the opponent of Mendelism; the political historian knows the ‘social-imperialist’ political thinker; the historian of feminism knows the early supporter of the women's movement and friend of Olive Schreiner; and, of course, the historian of eugenics knows the first occupant of the on...

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

thegospelcoalition.org

Today marks the 400th birthday of Richard Baxter. It’s impossible to measure the influence of this English Puritan over four centuries. His works remain in print and are widely read, which shouldn’t surprise us. J. I. Packer considers him “the most outstanding pastor, evangelist, and writer on practical and devotional themes that Puritanism produced,” listing Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor (1656) as one of the top five books that have influenced him most.I first read The Reformed Pastor as a high school student aspiring to pastoral...

Profile of a Prodigy: Samuel Sevian

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At age 13 years 10 months and 27 days, Samuel Sevian became the world's youngest grandmaster, and the youngest grandmaster in US history, beating Ray Robson's record. His course has been a list of 'youngest evers', and his determination in the recent Saint Louis Invitational, where he clinched the 2500 rating, showed in his games. Here is a look at his spectacular chess resume.Born in New York to Armenian parents and learning chess when he was five, Sevian became the world’s youngest Grandmaster at the age of 13 years 10 months and 27 days. He is the first International Master and th...

What Is and What Might Be the Legacy of Felix Klein?

Karl Pearson and the professional middle class

Richard Baxter: 400 Years Later, Still a Model Pastor

Taylor Wilson

Translating tragedy: Molora and Yaël Farber’s adaption of Aeschylus’ Oresteia for the South African community

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Translating tragedy: Molora and Yaël Farber’s adaption of Aeschylus’ Oresteia for the South African community

The article takes the case of Yaël Farber’s performance Molora (an adaption of the ancient Greek tragedy Oresteia to the specific historical South African moment of transition to democracy and the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as a departing point to delve int...

Life and Achievement of Otto von Guericke as a Pioneer of Vacuum Science and Technology

Science

Life and Achievement of Otto von Guericke as a Pioneer of Vacuum Science and Technology

Scientific achievement of Otto von Guericke was very remarkable, but it was not introduced in detail in Japan. This was due to his demonstrating experiment with Magdeburug hemisphere using horses was too famous. Therefore, the author wrote in chapter 1, a brief overview of the literature already ...

11-Year-Old Adragon De Mello Has Everything a Boy Could Want—except Admission to a Ph.d Program

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11-Year-Old Adragon De Mello Has Everything a Boy Could Want—except Admission to a Ph.d Program

Adragon Eastwood De Mello accepted his 15 minutes of fame with equanimity: Meeting the press in cap and gown, he said a few words about how pleased he was to be a college graduate, then went home to play with his toy cars. Newspapers from Palo Alto to Philadelphia picked up the story of the 11-ye...