Ralph Duncan James (8 February 1909, Liverpool, England – 19 May 1979, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada) was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis. Born in Liverpool, Ralph moved with his parents to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was 10 years old. After graduating from high school, Ralph attended University of British Columbia. After graduating, he continued in mathematics, writing a master’s thesis on Tangential Coordinates. Proceeding to University of Chicago, he studied number theory and Waring's problem under L. E. Dickson. In 1932 he was a awarded a Ph.D. on the strength of his dissertation Analytical Investigations of Waring's Theorem. He continued post-graduate study, first with E. T. Bell at California Institute of Technology, then in 1934 with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge University. He published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and extended some work of Viggo Brun in 1938. Ralph James was a professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley from 1934 to 1939. He was then called to University of Saskatchewan where he became Head of the mathematics department. In 1943 he began his long tenure at University of British Columbia, becoming Head of the department in 1948. James made contributions to the theory of the Perron integral and to solution of Goldbach's conjecture. Since 1978, the Canadian Mathematical Society have awarded the Coxeter–James Prize in his honor. (Wikipedia).
James Gardner - The Whimsical and Serious Sides of Martin Gardner - CoM Oct 2020
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James Garfield: What Could Have Been? (1881)
James Garfield was the second president to be assassinated, and it's a shame too, as he seemed to be a really good one, and he was in office for just a few months. Let's see what he did in that short time, and learn about the circumstances surrounding his death. Script by Michael Thomas
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James Baker: President-Maker (US President Documentary) | Real Stories
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Lyndon B. Johnson: A Tragic Figure (1963 – 1969)
Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a large, imposing man, who had been an influential Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. And as President, it is difficult to say whether he is remembered better for his incredible domestic acc
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The life of Robert James Phillips in pictures (the slideshow shown at his memorial).
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Free Will, Witches, Murder, and Macbeth, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 409
The Sound! The Fury! Today, we're talking about Shakespeare's Scottish play, Macbeth. So, was Macbeth really predestined to do all the murdering and bad kinging and other terrible stuff? That's the big question in Macbeth, and it's one of the ideas we're going to talk about today, among ma
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Harvard ENGL E-129 - Lecture 6: Macbeth
Recorded on Oct 24, 2007.
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GoldenEye DevTalk - Creating the Nintendo 64 Classic
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The Supernova At The End of Time
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE ↓ More info below ↓ Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Good news everyone: it looks like the universe is going
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John Gielgud - Henry IV by William Shakespeare: Part 1, Act I, Scene 3 (Harry Hotspur's Speech)
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OSCON 2010: George Reese & James Duncan, "Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in?"
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