Albert Bloch, 1882-1961

This chapter recognizes Iwan Bloch as the first sexual theorist since Ulrichs to rebuke sexual degeneration as a viable scientific hypothesis. Bloch accomplished this deconstructio...

There are still many arithmetic mysteries surrounding the values of the Riemann zeta function at the odd positive integers greater than one. For example, the matter of their irrati...

**Booklist Starred Review** A fascinating look back on baseball’s humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominate...

This chapter examines how Hitchcock and his writers transformed his chosen sources, revealing two tendencies which are important in understanding how the director and the three wri...