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	Edward Kasner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Kasner (1878-1955) was a prominent American mathematician, best remembered today for popularizing the term googol.
		Kasner studied at Columbia University under Cassius Keyser.
		In 1921 he discovered the Kasner dust solutions of the Einstein field equation in general relativity, which are today regarded as an important example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Kasner (202 words)

	Googol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
		Kasner created it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity, and in this role it is sometimes used in teaching mathematics.
		Kasner, Edward and Newman, James Roy Mathematics and the Imagination (London: Penguin, 1940; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967; Dover Pubns, April 2001, ISBN 0486417034).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Googol (593 words)

	Milton Sirotta - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1929) was the nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.
		His uncle Edward asked him what name he would have given to a "1" followed by 100 zeros and "googol" was his answer.
		Sirotta is also credited with coining the word googolplex which is ten raised to the power of a googol.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Milton_Sirotta (100 words)

	Financial Review: Searching for the birth of the googol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kasner wrote, by way of comparison, that a googol was far bigger than a number cited in a divorce lawsuit of the day, in which the wife said she had loved the man "a million billion billion times and eight times around the world".
		Kasner, who never married, lived with a young Birenbaum and her family in an apartment near Columbia for two or three years.
		Kasner's mathematical accomplishments, including the popularisation of googol, remain points of pride for his living relatives, several of whom studied maths.
	afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?pagetype=printer&path=/articles/2004/06/18/1087245103935.html (1166 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math
		The googol was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878- 1955) in 1938.
		According to the story, Kasner asked his nephew Milton Sirotta, who was then 8 years old, what name he would give to a really large number, and "googol" was Milton's response.
		Kasner also defined the googolplex, equal to 10^googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of zeroes.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/57575.html (268 words)

	PlanetMath: googol
		The googol was created by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955) [4] in [2] to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity.
		The name 'googol' was coined by Kasner's nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta in 1938 when asked to give a name for a huge number.
		Kasner, EdwardandNewman, James Roy,Mathematics and the Imagination, (New York, NY, U SA: Simon and Schuster, 1967; Dover Pubns, April 2001; London: Penguin, 1940, ISBN 0486417034).
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/Googolplex2.html (264 words)

	Language Log: Google/Googol Owned?
		According to The Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun, Peri Fleisher, the great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who coined the term googol, is considering suing Google on behalf of her...
		According to The Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun, Peri Fleisher, the great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who coined the term googol, is considering suing Google on behalf of her son, who holds the copyright in Kasner's book Mathematics and the Imagination, for taking advantage of the word without compensating them.
		In his role as a scholar, Kasner introduced a word to the English language and thereby contributed it to the public domain.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000923.html (598 words)

	Edward Kasner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edward Kasner (1878 - 1955) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician, mostly known for his role in the origin of the word (A cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)) googol.
		Kasner studied at (A university in New York City) Columbia University under Cassius Keyser.
		He outsourced this task to his nine-year-old nephew, (Click link for more info and facts about Milton Sirotta) Milton Sirotta, who in turn coined the word "googol." A googol is 10 raised to the 100th power (i.e., a 1 followed by a hundred zeros.)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_kasner.htm (160 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Feelin' googly
		Her great-uncle Edward Kasner was "the mathematician who identified and named...
		Her great-uncle Edward Kasner was "the mathematician who identified and named the number googol," a one followed by 100 zeroes, and she was "pretty angry that they stole the word and never contacted us."
		And that 9-year-old nephew of Kasner's, let's note, named the googol in the 1930s, a good decade for Barney Google: The comic strip was flourishing, and Barney also appeared in animated cartoons and comic books.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/05/09/feelin_googly (686 words)

	Snooze Button Dreams: Googol vs. Google
		The word was created by Professor Edward Kasner in the 1930s and used in a book of his in 1940.
		Kasner's descendants are getting set to battle Google, saying that the US-based company profited at their expense.
		Kasner was an intelligent and middlingly successful mathematician who's single claim to fame is the description of a number that is never used except as an example of a really big number.
	www.snoozebuttondreams.com /archives/029171.html (731 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Whacking Google (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Several decades ago, mathematician Edward Kasner conceived a number so large, it would exceed the total number of elementary particles in the known universe, with room to spare.
		It was a nod to Kasner, and to their own ongoing effort to bring order to the billions of bits of information that comprise the Internet.
		Almost as soon as Edward Kasner had introduced "googol" to the world, another mathematician shot back with "googolplex" -- defined as ten to the power of googol -- a number so large, one physicist recently suggested it may be 500 years before we have a computer that could begin to contemplate it.
	www.techcentralstation.com /040402B.html (1117 words)

	PAUL J. KASNER
		The wedding was a double ceremony, and the other couple was Paul's sister, Lena M. Kasner, who married Augusta's brother, Ernest P. Kaulfus.
		They had three children: David Edward Kasner, b March 7, 1949 who married August 18, 1974 to Janet Doskocil; Donald Easley Kasner, b November 29,1950 who married May 6, 1978 to Mary Lou Zieg; and Bruce Kasner, b September 14, 1962 who is not married.
		Dale served in the military from 1942 to 1943, and again from 1950 to 1951.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txfalls/bioKASNERpaulj.htm (793 words)

	Googol may sue Google (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Professor Edward Kasner came up with the word Googol, apparently at the suggestion of his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta.
		His relatives claim that Kasner must be spinning in his grave.
		She admitted that she was only four when Kasner died, and could only just remember him.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=15969 (333 words)

	Overlawyered: A 1-in-a-googol claim
		In the late 1930s, Edward Kasner was asked to come up with the name for a large number; as legend has it, he asked his nine-year old nephew, who said "googol," and Kasner's 1940 book "Mathematics and the Imagination" popularized the term for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
		Over a half century later, a variation of that word was used to name a popular search engine, which you may have heard is going public in an e billion dollar offering.
		Now Kasner's great-niece, Peri Fleisher, is going public herself, complaining that her family hasn't been compensated for Google's choice of a name, and "exploring" the possibility of legal action.
	www.overlawyered.com /archives/001116.html (155 words)

	When Google becomes ePlay
		Milton was the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, who introduced the concept as a throwaway example of an extremely large number in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.
		A googol is greater than the number of particles in the known universe, which is estimated to be between 10^72 and 10^87.
		Even bigger than a googol, according to Kasner, is a googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol zeros.
	www.maa.org /devlin/devlin_10_04.html (847 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Zero tolerance as Googol plans to take Google to court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		News of the deal has brought a threat of legal action from the family of Professor Edward Kasner, who invented the word "googol" in the 1930s to describe a very big number.
		Kasner’s great-niece, Peri Fleisher, now insists that the US-based company has gained financially at the expense of the family.
		Gillian Cameron, a partner in the intellectual property and technology department at Maclay, Murray & Spens, said: "They would have to show the family had used the word as a trademark and it had somehow been misappropriated, which doesn’t appear to be the case.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=568832004 (412 words)

	DaoJones » 2004 » May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Google is being sued by the relatives of Professor Edward Kasner.
		Kasner conjured the word ‘Googol’; to describe the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.
		The whole fiasco is being led by Kasner’s great-neice, Peri Fleisher.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~edao/index.php?m=20040518 (315 words)

	LWN: "Google Pocket Guide" Released by O'Reilly
		Kasner purportedly created it to illustrate the difference between an unimaginably large number and infinity.
		If Kasner or his nephew were alive today they would be able to google the term "googol" and discover this, and more.
		They'd find that Google's name is derived from googol, to reflect the enormous amount of information available on the web.
	lwn.net /Articles/38864 (376 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Around 1930, American mathematician Edward Kasner found himself working with numbers as large as 10 to the 100th power—that's a one followed by 100 zeros.
		According to his own account, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to give him a name, promising the boy that he would use the word in the future.
		Dr. Kasner kept his promise, and the word has been widely adopted by mathematicians and the general public alike." In the interest of copyrights and such, you can find more info on this calendar at Workman Publishing.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3529681&postID=111064863779751540 (213 words)

	Kramer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Named after her uncle, Edward Elowitch who had died shortly before her birth and who had shown a gift for mathematics, Kramer's childhood ambition was to do well in his honour.
		Other antecedents of Kramer's work were in the papers of Scheffers on monogenic functions of the dual variable In the second part of her thesis Kramer studied the Laguerre group, a set of linear fractional polygenic transformations of the dual variable and gave a more analytic treatment than had previously been done.
		While Kasner influenced her dissertation, Kramer's earliest pedagogical publication reflects the influence of her mentor, John A. Swenson and her job.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Kramer.html (1782 words)

	Read My Lips - the blog: Peri Fleisher, great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner
		Folks, it seemed to be very very difficult to find a really Stupid Person for Today, but thankfully there is this lady: Peri Fleisher, great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who invented the word "googol" to describe the number one followed...
		Folks, it seemed to be very very difficult to find a really Stupid Person for Today, but thankfully there is this lady: Peri Fleisher, great-niece of Professor Edward Kasner, who invented the word "googol" to describe the number one followed by a hundred zeroes is suin' Google, the search engine.
		Her suit is stupid, likely one of the most baseless intellectual property suits ever conceived in a person's mind, and, as such, she is Today's Stupidest Person of the Day™.
	tig.mu.nu /archives/029462.html (252 words)

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		Edward Jenner ?In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner inoculated a small group of pcople with cowpox, a mild disease.
		It was found in Wyoming and named by Robert Bakker and others to honor Edward Drinker Cope, a late 19th century paleontologist.
		Named by American mathematician Edward Kasner, a googol is a number equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros, or 10^100.
	www.s95162438.onlinehome.us /dloads/Bucket_Full_of_Science.pxt (9232 words)

	The confusion of English words including such words as googol, google, and goggle for better word usage. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although not from a Greek or Latin source, this nomenclature is frequently used in mathematics for this numerical group.
		In the late 1930s, the noted mathematician and Columbia University professor, Edward Kasner was asked to come up with a name for an extraordinarily large number; so, while on a walk one day, he asked his 9-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, if he had any ideas.
		In an obituary in The New York Times in 1955, Kasner was quoted as saying that a googol was “more than the number of raindrops falling on the city in a century, or the number of grains of sand on the Coney Island beach.”
	www.wordphiles.info /clarify-words-googol.html (1014 words)

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		Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination"
		Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was
		Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the
	vocaboly.com /forums/ftopic1819-15.html (1485 words)

	SOLIDS
		` Edward Kasner and James R. Newman - Mathematics and the Imagination, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1940; ISBN 1-55615-104-7 Redmond: WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1989.
		Edward Kasner and James R. Newman - Mathematics and the Imagination, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1940; ISBN 1-55615-104-7 Redmond: WA, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1989.
		Rothstein, Edward, Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics, New York: Random House (Times Books), 1995.
	www.cs.ucla.edu /~klinger/mathold.html (600 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		In 1938, mathematician Edward Kasner was trying to come up with a name for the immensely large number represented by the figure one followed by one hundred zeroes—ten raised to the hundredth power.
		Kasner asked his young nephew Milton for a suggestion: Milton came up with googol, Uncle Edward included it in print, and the rest is history.
		Seven years later, in 1945, medical history was made with the discovery of bacitracin.
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?070903 (217 words)

	Family Of Googol Inventor Would Like A Word With Google
		However, the family of Edward Kasner believes they should be entitled to a piece of Google's financial pie.
		The Baltimore Sun has recently interviewed the great-niece of Kasner, Peri Fleisher, who will also be one of the spokespeople for the Kasner family.
		A quote from the article in the Baltimore Sun indicates where the Kasner's stand when it comes to the level of satisfaction they are seeking.
	www.webpronews.com /news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040517FamilyOfGoogolInventorWouldLikeAWordWithGoogle.html (449 words)

	Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums - The origins of Google
		In his book Cosmos, Carl Sagan told how the nine year old nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner was allowed to invent the name for the number 10
		Milton Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner, made this word in 1938, for the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros.
		The car company mentioned on the first quote I have just posted was of the year 1923, whereas Kasner invented the word similar to it in 1938.
	www.physicsforums.com /printthread.php?t=57872 (765 words)

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