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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city high-school students wrestled with an odd sort of problem. The class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which can result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Stretch | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Sage Bertrand Russell celebrated his 82nd birthday by bringing out his second volume of short stories, Nightmares of Eminent Persons. Among the bad dreams that Russell dreamed up were nocturnal horrors suffered by Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...BERTRAND LEARY Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1954 | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...Bertrand Fox, professor of Business Administration and Director of Research at the University Business School, was appointed yesterday to advise the federal government on problems of defense mobilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School's Fox Named New Mobilization Aide | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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