Category Archives: Graduate School

White Paper: Verifying Theoretical Closure—The Role of Proof Assistants in Discovering and Exhausting Mathematical Corollaries

Posted on August 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper explores the epistemological and practical question of how we can know whether all corollaries and “obvious” proofs have been derived from a given set of mathematical theorems. In doing so, it evaluates the limitations of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Protocol for a Large-Scale Prospective Study of Postmenopausal Women with Benign Ovarian Cysts or Tumors and Family History of Ovarian Neoplasia

Posted on July 19, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Ovarian cancer remains a leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality, in part due to late diagnosis and lack of robust early detection strategies. Many postmenopausal women present with incidentally detected, apparently benign ovarian cysts or tumors. The risk … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Operational Plan and Prospectus for a Just and Profitable University Press

Posted on July 15, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper outlines an operational plan and strategic prospectus for establishing a university press that is both just—in its commitments to fairness, accessibility, and ethical academic publishing—and profitable—capable of sustaining itself financially while contributing meaningfully to the … Continue reading →

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To Understand And To Be Understood

Posted on September 21, 2023 by nathanalbright

Frequently in life I have found myself consulted by people who wished to have things explained to them, and without having ever studied formally to be a teacher, the task has often fallen to me from my youth to tutor … Continue reading →

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On Reading Critical Literature

Posted on September 7, 2022 by nathanalbright

Today I received three books in the mail that all happened to be Norton Critical Editions of three of Jane Austen’s novels: Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility, and Mansfield Park. I already had, thanks to a couple of online courses at … Continue reading →

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On The Greatness Of Great Books

Posted on August 15, 2022 by nathanalbright

One of the characteristics of mediocre books is that they are a product of their time, and of great books is that they speak to all times. How does this happen? What is it that makes a book great rather … Continue reading →

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How To Become An Atlantic Historian Without Really Trying

Posted on June 12, 2018 by nathanalbright

From time to time [1], I reflect on how one becomes something without conscious intention, or creates things without doing so consciously.  What is most striking to me is how these things happen in deeply obscure fields of study where … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Christology In The Apostolic Fathers

Posted on May 18, 2018 by nathanalbright

The Christology In The Apostolic Fathers, by Alonzo Rosecrans Stark While I found much fault with the author’s approach to the apostolic fathers, I found this to be a worthwhile book about the apostolic fathers, as it was the author’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lincoln On Leadership

Posted on February 29, 2016 by nathanalbright

Lincoln On Leadership: Executive Strategies For Tough Times, by Donald t. Phillips I snagged this book, along with a few other ones, on a recent trip to a Gig Harbor independent bookstore that led at least one of my friends … Continue reading →

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So That Crows Flying Over It For The Balance Of The Season Will Have To Carry Their Provender With Them

Posted on December 12, 2015 by nathanalbright

When studying for my Masters of Arts in military history at Norwich University a few years ago, I was required to take a course on American military history. As might be expected, my favorite area of that class was the … Continue reading →

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