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Sicherman Dice Table
Sicherman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Barbara Sicherman Barbara Sicherman is an American historian and academic who specializes in women's history. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Education Sicherma ... (), American Historian * George Sicherman (), inventor of the Sicherman dice * Harvey Sicherman (1945–2010), American writer and foreign policy expert See also * Scherman {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Sicherman
Barbara Sicherman is an American historian and academic who specializes in women's history. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values Emerita at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Education Sicherman earned her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Career Sicherman was a professor at Trinity College from 1982 through 2005. She taught courses on women's history, American culture, and women's studies. She helped establish Trinity's Women's Studies Program and was involved in efforts to increase faculty diversity. Sicherman is a specialist in women's history and has conducted research on topics such as medical and psychiatric history, women's biography, and the role of reading in women's lives. She is the author of several books, including ''Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters'', ''Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women'', and ''The Quest for Mental Health in America, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sicherman
Sicherman dice are a pair of 6-sided dice with non-standard numbers—one with the sides 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4 and the other with the sides 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. They are notable as the only pair of 6-sided dice that are not normal dice, bear only positive integers, and have the same probability distribution for the sum as normal dice. They were invented in 1978 by George Sicherman of Buffalo, New York. Mathematics Comparison of sum tables of and dice. If zero is allowed, normal dice have one variant and Sicherman dice have two Each table has A standard exercise in elementary combinatorics is to calculate the number of ways of rolling any given value with a pair of fair six-sided dice (by taking the sum of the two rolls). The table shows the number of such ways of rolling a given value n: Crazy dice is a mathematical exercise in elementary combinatorics, involving a re-labeling of the faces of a pair of six-sided dice to reproduce the same frequency of sums as the standar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Sicherman
Harvey Sicherman (1945–2010) was an American writer and foreign policy expert. He served as the President and Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, located in Philadelphia, from 1993 until 2010. His interests lay in the analysis of U.S. foreign policy and national security, as well as in the areas of Western Europe, the Middle East, and International Economics. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1945, Sicherman died on December 25, 2010. Education In 1966, Sicherman earned a B.A. in History from the University of Scranton and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1971 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the Salvatori Fellowship. Career Sicherman served as the Associate Director for Research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) from 1978 through 1980. He then served as Special Assistant to the then Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, from 1981 to 1982. Following this, from 1982 to 1987, Sicherman was a consultant for the Secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
