The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of university and high school students towards mobile games, and to investigate their motivation and gratification needs in terms of mobile gaming. The descriptive method was used in the study. The sampling group was composed of 846 participants. The data were collected through the Mobile Gaming Motivation Survey. The reliability coefficient of the survey (Cronbach’s alpha) was found to be 0.893. The data analysis revealed that the mobile gaming motives of participants were self-realization/individual gratification, rivalry, social interaction, addiction and escaping. It was concluded that the motivation of the participants to play mobile games and the time they spent on mobile gaming decreased as their education level increased. It was also found that the mean scores for each factor got lower as the age progressed.

Despite his short life, Robert Murphy (1806-1843) was a mathematician and physicist of “true genius,” according to Augustus De Morgan [Venn 2009]. Murphy’s research can be categorized into three areas: Algebraic Equations, Integral Equations, and Operator Calculus [Allaire 2002]. The majority of scholarship on Murphy is centered around his contributions to physics; however, historians such as Petrova [1978] and Bradley and Allaire [2002] have explored Murphy’s linear operator theory. In the paper “Robert Murphy: Mathematician and Physicist,” we provide a unified exposition in which we synthesize and expand on existing accounts of Murphy’s life and mathematical contributions. Additionally, we give an overview of his mathematical papers and accomplishments in hopes of inspiring historians to examine and analyze his original works. This biography can be found in the online journal Convergence, available at the website of the Mathematical Association of America (www.maa.org). As noted in our biography, all but one of Murphy’s papers are available for download from Google Books or the Journal Storage Database (JSTOR). Murphy’s first paper, Refutation of a Pamphlet Written by the Rev. John Mackey Entitled “A Method of Making a Cube a Double of a Cube, Founded on the Principles of Elementary Geometry,” wherein His Principles Are Proved Erroneous and the Required Solution Not Yet Obtained [1824], has not been available in the United States. As a result, the authors here provide a transcript of the paper with commentary. Refutation of a Pamphlet ... 1