FACTOID # 152: Of the eight countries which include the word "democratic" in their conventional long form name, three are dictatorships: North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic) and the Democratic republic of the Congo.
 
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Encyclopedia > Jurgen Moser

Jurgen Moser (1928 – 1999) was an American mathematician who specialized in dynamical systems. 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... In engineering and mathematics, a dynamical system is a deterministic process in which a functions value changes over time according to a rule that is defined in terms of the functions current value. ...


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Jurgen Moser (276 words)
Moser's trip was dangerous, under gun fire (see the book C. Reid: Courant in Göttingen und New York).
Moser, who became a U.S. citizen, was a research associate at the New York University in 1957 when he left to become visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An event in 1970 at Courant while Moser was director of the Courant institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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