The Effective Scientist: A Handy Guide to a Successful Academic Career. By Corey J. A. Bradshaw; illustrated by René Campbell. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $64.99 (hardcover); $24.99 (paper). xiii + 276 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-1-107-17147-3 (hc); 978-1-316-62085-4 (pb). 2018.

2020 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-97
Author(s):  
Raphael K. Didham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Successful Academic

scholarly journals Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Turing
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
London Mathematical Society ◽  
Effective Procedure ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Academic Year

On 23 September 1936 Turing left England on a vessel bound for New York. His destination was Princeton University, where the Mathematics Department and the Institute for Advanced Study combined to make Princeton a leading centre for mathematics. Turing had applied unsuccessfully for a Visiting Fellowship to Princeton in the spring of 1935. When a year later he learned of Church’s work at Princeton on the Entscheidungsproblem, which paralleled his own (see ‘Computable Numbers: A Guide’), Turing ‘decided quite definitely’ to go there. He planned to stay for a year. In mid-1937 the offer of a Visiting Fellowship for the next academic year persuaded him to prolong his visit, and he embarked on a Ph.D. thesis. Already advanced in his academic career, Turing was an unusual graduate student (in the autumn of 1937, he himself was appointed by Cambridge University to examine a Ph.D. thesis). By October 1937 Turing was looking forward to his thesis being ‘done by about Christmas’. It took just a little longer: ‘Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals’ was accepted on 7 May 1938 and the degree was awarded a few weeks later. The following year the thesis was published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. ‘Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals’ was written under Church’s supervision. His relationship to Turing—whose formalization of the concept of an effective procedure and work on the Entscheidungsproblem was ‘possibly more convincing’ than Church’s own—was hardly the usual one of doctoral supervisor to graduate student. In an interview given in 1984, Church remarked that Turing ‘had the reputation of being a loner’ and said: ‘I forgot about him when I was speaking about my own graduate students—truth is, he was not really mine.’ Nevertheless Turing and Church had ‘a lot of contact’ and Church ‘discussed his dissertation with him rather carefully’. Church’s influence was not all for the good, however. In May 1938 Turing wrote: My Ph.D. thesis has been delayed a good deal more than I had expected. Church made a number of suggestions which resulted in the thesis being expanded to an appalling length. I hope the length of it won’t make it difficult to get it published.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Kariane Westrheim ◽  
Michael Gunter ◽  
Yener Koc ◽  
Yavuz Aykan ◽  
Diane E. King ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Kurdish Conflict

Adem Uzun, “Living Freedom”: The Evolution of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey and the Efforts to Resolve it. Berghof Transitions Series No. 11. Berlin: Berghof Foundation, 2014. 48 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-941514-16-4).Ebru Sönmez, Idris-i Bidlisi: Ottoman Kurdistan and Islamic Legitimacy, Libra Kitap, Istanbul, 2012, 190 pp., (ISBN: 978-605-4326-56-3). Sabri Ateş, The Ottoman–Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914, New York; Cambridge University Press, 2013. 366., (ISBN: 978-1107033658).  Choman Hardi, Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington Vermont: Ashgate, 2011, xii + 217 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-7546-7715-4).Harriet Allsopp, The Kurds of Syria: Political Parties and Identity in the Middle East, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2014, 299 pp., (ISBN: 978-1780765631).Khanna Omarkhali (ed.), Religious Minorities in Kurdistan: Beyond the Mainstream [Studies in Oriental Religions, Volume 68], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2014, xxxviii + 423 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-447-10125-7).Anna Grabole-Çeliker, Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity, London: I.B. Taurus, 2013, 299 pp., (ISBN: 978-1780760926).  

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Michiel Leezenberg ◽  
Stanley Thangaraj
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
City College ◽  
Tennessee Technological University ◽  
Technological University

Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 483 pp., (ISBN: 9781138646643). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Balti, Republic of Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 252 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-330-33239-3) Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University, United States Emel Elif Tugdar & Serhun Al, eds., Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests, Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, pp. 235, (ISBN: 978-3319537146) Reviewed by Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 364 pp, (9781108684842). Reviewed by Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019, 192 pp. (ISBN: 978-1629636511). Reviewed by Stanley Thangaraj, City College of New York, United States

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