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...consider the French revolution as the cradle of the systematic method in modern scientific endeavor," Professor Richard Courant, the eminent mathematician, told his Lowell House listeners Friday night...
...Head of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences as New York University, Courant spoke informally on the post-revolution development of scientific education in European universities...
...Intuition, divination, instinct, were as good for them as 'proofs' today," according to Courant. Only after the revolution did mathematicians inject rigor into their textbooks to guide the large numbers of people suddenly confronted with the chance to educate themselves...
...ungallant Manhattan critic wrote of her: "She is the old conventional Greek woman with no clothing in particular about the upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower half. She is devoid of expression." Years later, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius' footing was getting shaky, is said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius...
Spanning the period 1706-34, Volume I only takes Franklin to the age of 28, but these were the spawning years of his genius. He served his apprenticeship as a printer, journeyed to England and back, published the New England Courant, married, formed the "Junto," an intellectual self-improvement club of like-minded Philadelphians, and brought out the first three of the famed Poor Richard's Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close...