J' D' Jackson: A Testament

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J. D. JacksonA Testament

• January 10, 2005

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The Books

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Deuteronomy
• Numbers
• Acts
• Revelation

• Lamentations
• Kings
• I Judges
• II Judges
• Epistles
• Proverbs

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Genesis
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Exodus
50-56
25-46
46-49
56-57
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I will multiply your descendants as the stars of
heavenEx. 3213

• Harry Schiff (McGill)
• Donald Betts (McGill)
• Icko Iben, Jr. (Illinois)
• John Donohue (Illinois)
• Gerald Hite (Illinois)
• Gordy Kane (Illinois)

• Chris Quigg (Berkeley)
• Rick Field (Berkeley)
• Bob Cahn (Berkeley)

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Deuteronomy
Daves first high-energy paper
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How Do You Solve a Problem Out of Jackson?
Numbers
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Physics 224C Supplementary notes on Problem 2-5
(1969)
Gradshteyn and Ryzhik formulas 7.126-4 and 7.133-
1 are incorrect.
Legendre function of second kind
Hypergeometric function
The integral is recognizable (with a little
practice!) as a hypergeometric function.
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The formula in the Bateman manuscript is actually
in error.
Pochhammers generalized hypergeometric function
Errors in Bateman Manuscript Project volumes
The only conclusion seems to be that the
integral in the books is incorrect.
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Acts
Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharansky
SOS
Moratorium on cooperation with Soviet scientists
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Revelation
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Lamentations
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JDJ DDO CDG SSC
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1st Edition
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SSC Dipoles
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Visual Obit for SSC JDJ, October 1993
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How lonely sits the city that was full of
people!How like a widow has she become,she that
was great among the nations!
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Kings
Lord Rutherford
Lord Rayleigh
L. V. Lorenz
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I Judges

• I protest most vigorously the recent
  actionanother example of the unthinking,
  inconsiderate, arbitrary LBL bureaucracy at work
  The result is deception, pure and simple. Bob
  Cahn deserves a written apology from the
  Laboratory. I trust that you will see that he
  gets it.
• Dear Dick, Sid, and Norman, You have been
  very unfair in not giving sufficient prominence
  to the pioneering work of Baier and Katkov. A
  curved path that is an arc of a circle to high
  accuracy is the same whether produced by a
  magnetic field or an electric field, and you know
  it!

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II Judges

• The health of L.R.L., Berkeley, as a viable
  research institution depends on the maintenance
  of a favorable climate for free and unfettered
  inquiry. Unnecessary restrictions on free speech
  are contrary to that goal. (May 22, 1971)
• I suppose the whole world seems going
  conservative. Those senators! the de jure
  de facto desegregation amendment. Dellums is
  not likely to beat Cohelan, is he? (Feb. 22,
  1970)
• Steel yourself for next Tuesday afternoon and
  early evening our BBC4 8 a.m. news on Wed.
  morning will have full reports of the debacle or
  unexpected triumph, as the case may be. (Nov. 3,
  1988)

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Epistles to the Editors

• the leaky sieve that you call refereeing,
  languorous and gutless editors, and other
  relevant matters.
• it was absolutely unconscionable for you to
  publish his 15 October 1984 response. His last
  sentence there (My original conclusion still
  stands.) is now juxtaposed with ours (The
  conclusion of Reiss is not just counterintuitive
  It is wrong.).
• The paper by Nowakowski in the October 1999
  issue is the trigger for the release of my
  pent-up annoyance at the laziness of authors, who
  when re-inventing the wheel, fail to bother to
  give credit to the cavemen who preceded them.Who
  were the referees? .. Would-be contributors have
  a duty to search out and cite that previous
  published related work, even if it requires going
  to the library to find it.

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Proverbs, 12-7

• That men may know wisdom and instruction,
  understand words of insight,
• Receive instruction in wise dealing,
  righteousness, justice, and equity
• That prudence may be given to the simple,
  knowledge and discretion to the youth -
• The wise man also may hear and increase in
  learning, and the man of understanding acquire
  skill,
• To understand a proverb and figure, the words of
  the wise and their riddles.

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Variations

• King James To understand a proverb, and the
  interpretation the words of the wise, and their
  dark sayings
• American Standard Version To understand a
  proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and
  their dark sayings.
• New Revised Standard To understand a proverb
  and a figure, the words of the wise and their
  riddles.
• Latin Vulgate animadvertet parabolam et
  interpretationem verba sapientium et enigmata
  eorum
• Darby To understand a proverb and an allegory,
  the words of the wise and their enigmas.
• 'tdyix.w yim'kx yer.biD h'cyil.m.W l'v'm
  !yib'h.l
• To understand a proverb and an allegory, the
  words of the wise and their problem sets.