The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and population life span has increased in dramatic ways. In particular, the oldest-old (85+) population has grown and will continue to grow. This segment of the population tends to suffer physical and cognitive decline, and little information is available to describe how their positive and negative distal experiences, habits, and intervening proximal environmental influences impact their well-being, and how social and health policies can help meet the unique...
The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and populatio...
Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in Germany before World War II, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development of modern mathematics. He was a friend of Albert Einstein and personally knew many of the era s acclaimed mathematicians. He moved to Israel (then Palestine under the British Mandate) in the early 1930s. In his autobiography he describes his early years growing up as an Orthodox Jew in Germany and his development as a mathematician at the beginning of the 20th century. This autobiography, originally written in German in the 1960s, has now been...
Abraham A. Fraenkel was a world-renowned mathematician in Germany before World War II, whose work on set theory was fundamental to the development ...
