American Glider Pilots in the Invasion of Sicily: Twenty-Six Airmen and Two Fate

High casualties were expected on these “one-way ticket” flights. Drawing on official United States Army Air Forces microfilm records, operational records in the National Archives, photographs from both collections, and many personal accounts, this book brings to life a new and unknown chapter in the USAAF’s World War II history.

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mat

Within the span of twenty years (1220-1240), Robert Grosseteste and William of Auvergne countenanced the actual infinite and presented very original views on the possibility of comparing infinities. Until his proposal, no one in Western culture had operated with infinite ‘s proposal led to debates on what criteria one should use whenassigning ‘sizes’ to infinite collections with one-to-one correspondence being proposed as a challenge to the part-whole intuition defended by Grosseteste.

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mat

Within the span of twenty years (1220-1240), Robert Grosseteste and William of Auvergne countenanced the actual infinite and presented very original views on the possibility of comparing infinities. Until his proposal, no one in Western culture had operated with infinite ‘s proposal led to debates on what criteria one should use whenassigning ‘sizes’ to infinite collections with one-to-one correspondence being proposed as a challenge to the part-whole intuition defended by Grosseteste.

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mat

Within the span of twenty years (1220-1240), Robert Grosseteste and William of Auvergne countenanced the actual infinite and presented very original views on the possibility of comparing infinities. Until his proposal, no one in Western culture had operated with infinite ‘s proposal led to debates on what criteria one should use whenassigning ‘sizes’ to infinite collections with one-to-one correspondence being proposed as a challenge to the part-whole intuition defended by Grosseteste.

The Wilderness of the Infinite: Robert Grosseteste, William of Auvergne, and Mat

Within the span of twenty years (1220-1240), Robert Grosseteste and William of Auvergne countenanced the actual infinite and presented very original views on the possibility of comparing infinities. Until his proposal, no one in Western culture had operated with infinite ‘s proposal led to debates on what criteria one should use whenassigning ‘sizes’ to infinite collections with one-to-one correspondence being proposed as a challenge to the part-whole intuition defended by Grosseteste.