Download or read book John G Kemeny and Dartmouth College written by Stephen J. Nelson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring never before published excerpts from his unfinished autobiography, this book explores the career of John G. Kemeny, mathematician, educator, and president of Dartmouth College. Nelson presents a portrait of Kemeny’s presidential leadership during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s, exemplifying his resolute commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, learning, human understanding, equity, and justice. Through this discussion of Kemeny’s life, Nelson identifies the ideal qualities of a leader: willingness to ponder, consider, and achieve the best actions he could conceive; compassion, understanding and empathy for others; absolute belief in the rising generation of college students; and courage in the face of challenging public issues, contentious and warring opinions, and concerns. From immigrant roots to college presidency and the national stage, this book tells the full story of a genius and giant of the world of academia.

Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at Science written by Nancy Cartwright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science – not just experiments or theories – and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.

Download or read book John Kemeny Speaking written by John G. Kemeny and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Papers of John G Kemeny 1969 1976 77 written by Dartmouth College. Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Back to BASIC written by John G. Kemeny and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selected Materials Relating to the Announcement and Inauguraton of John G Kemeny as President of Dartmouth College written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tenth Anniversary of the Inauguration of John G Kemeny as President of Dartmouth College written by Dartmouth College and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Probability written by David F. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom-tested textbook is an introduction to probability theory, with the right balance between mathematical precision, probabilistic intuition, and concrete applications. Introduction to Probability covers the material precisely, while avoiding excessive technical details. After introducing the basic vocabulary of randomness, including events, probabilities, and random variables, the text offers the reader a first glimpse of the major theorems of the subject: the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. The important probability distributions are introduced organically as they arise from applications. The discrete and continuous sides of probability are treated together to emphasize their similarities. Intended for students with a calculus background, the text teaches not only the nuts and bolts of probability theory and how to solve specific problems, but also why the methods of solution work.

Download or read book Statement by John G Kemeny President Dartmouth College Before the Subcommittee on Science Research and Development written by John G. Kemeny and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Structured BASIC Programming written by John G. Kemeny and published by . This book was released on 1987-03-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to computer programming via well-structured BASIC. Assuming no prior knowledge of BASIC, this book presents the fundamentals of programming, then shows, through examples and problems, how algorithmic processes from many fields can be transcribed into computer programs. Emphasis is on use of subroutines, and on collections of external subroutines called libraries, as well as on use of top-down design. Section on programming techniques includes advice on how to design, code, test, and debug large programs. Contains varied applications: text, mathematical, business, games, graphics, and music.

Download or read book John G Kemeny written by Thomas E. Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Inauguration Proceedings of John G Kemeny Dartmouth College March 1 1970 written by John Sloan Dickey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Keep the Damned Women Out written by Nancy Weiss Malkiel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coed As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "Keep the damned women out." Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education—revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women activists, but through strategic decisions made by powerful men. In America, Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth began to admit women; in Britain, several of the men's colleges at Cambridge and Oxford did the same. What prompted such fundamental change? How was coeducation accomplished in the face of such strong opposition? How well was it implemented? Nancy Weiss Malkiel explains that elite institutions embarked on coeducation not as a moral imperative but as a self-interested means of maintaining a first-rate applicant pool. She explores the challenges of planning for the academic and non-academic lives of newly admitted women, and shows how, with the exception of Mary Ingraham Bunting at Radcliffe, every decision maker leading the charge for coeducation was male. Drawing on unprecedented archival research, “Keep the Damned Women Out” is a breathtaking work of scholarship that is certain to be the definitive book on the subject.

Download or read book Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences written by John G. Kemeny and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Programming written by John G. Kemeny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1971 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Probability Tales written by Charles Miller Grinstead and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores four real-world topics through the lens of probability theory. It can be used to supplement a standard text in probability or statistics. Most elementary textbooks present the basic theory and then illustrate the ideas with some neatly packaged examples. Here the authors assume that the reader has seen, or is learning, the basic theory from another book and concentrate in some depth on the following topics: streaks, the stock market, lotteries, and fingerprints. This extended format allows the authors to present multiple approaches to problems and to pursue promising side discussions in ways that would not be possible in a book constrained to cover a fixed set of topics. To keep the main narrative accessible, the authors have placed the more technical mathematical details in appendices. The appendices can be understood by someone who has taken one or two semesters of calculus.