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Approximation of quadratic irrationals and their pierce expansions
No full textIn this article two aims are pursued: on the one hand, to present a rapidly converging algorithm for the approximation of square roots; on the other hand and based on the previous algorithm, to find the Pierce expansions of a certain class of quadratic irrationals as an alternative way to the method presented in 1984 by J.O. Shallit; we extend the method to find also the Pierce expansions of quadratic irrationals of the form which are not covered in Shallit's work.Quadratic irrationals, Pierce series
John A. Pierce Oral History
No full textJohn A. Pierce was interviewed by Darryl Podoll on April 3, 1974 for approximately 32 minutes. Pierce discusses the life and work of Alfred Goldman.https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oralhistories/1061/thumbnail.jp
Letter from President Richard Nixon to Mrs. W. Lemar Pierce
No full textThis letter was written by President Nixon in response to a report sent to him by W. Lemar Pierce, president of the Delaware Federation of Republican Women
Correspondence regarding death of Grace W. Pierce-Beck
No full textThis is a print-out of e-mail correspondence from Mark Martell, President of the Delaware Audubon Society, reminiscing on the life and accomplishments of Grace W. Pierce-Beck
I can mind the time... Pierce Pickett
No full textNewfoundlanders Remember Their Past is a 5 part television series that was created by Extension Service, Memorial University of Newfoundland for Memorial University Television to highlight some of the films and interviews done in the past through Extension Services. In this episode host Charles Callanan looks at the film series "I can mind the time...", specifically the film "I can mind the time... Pierce Pickett" which highlights the life of fisherman, lumberman and World War I veteran Pierce PIckett and was also originally featured as part of a Decks Awash episode in 1977. As part of the introduction to the film Charles Callanan interviews Randy Coffin who was involved in the original filming
May Pierce Letter
No full textA letter sent by May Pierce, mother of Barton P. Pierce, from Lenni, Pennsylvania on March 21, 1943 to the First Christian Church of Morehead, Kentucky.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/mfcc_ww2_letters/1075/thumbnail.jp
Interview with John Robinson Pierce
No full textAn interview in three sessions in April 1979 with John R. Pierce, often referred to as the father of the communications satellite. A leading applied physicist, Pierce went to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 after receiving his PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech. He spent the next thirty-five years there, where he made important contributions to the development of the traveling-wave tube and the reflex klystron, rising to become executive director of Bell's Research-Communications Principles Division. Pierce was also a pioneer in communications satellites, playing a key role in the development of two of the earliest, Echo and Telstar. In this interview he recalls his undergraduate education at Caltech in the late twenties and early thirties, the early years at Bell, radar work during the war, and the beginnings of America's satellite program.
Pierce was also a prolific author of science fiction, sometimes under the pen name J. J. Coupling. In the mid-1960s, he served on the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). He retired from Bell Labs in 1971 and returned to Caltech as a professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and he comments on the changes (and the similarities) he found in undergraduate education at Caltech. While at Bell, Pierce developed a lifelong interest in computer-generated music and psychoacoustics, the science of consonance and dissonance; in the latter part of the interview, he discusses his work with Max Mathews on music synthesis. A year after this interview was conducted, he became professor emeritus at Caltech, and in 1983 he joined Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a visiting professor. Pierce died on April 2, 2002, in Mountain View, California
F.M. Pierce and family
No full textA man and woman standing behind two boys who are seated on chairs in front of them. They are all identified as F.M Pierce, his wife Sallie and his sons Jim and Harry
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A letter from Pierce Rushton to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA letter from Pierce Rushton, Director of Admissions at the United States Military Academy, to Dr. Hector P. Garcia regarding the candidacy of Jesse Torres
Andrew Pierce in a Scholars Day Recital
No full textPianist Andrew Pierce performed Khachaturian\u27s Toccata for Scholars Day
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