Word: euclidean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle them full of holes. Not only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high...
...land are often reduced to vulgarity by the Atlantic Ocean. Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design. The modern architecture of Holland, exemplified in the Euclidean beauties of J. J. P. Oud's houses, contains even more. Making safe concessions to the tourist's desire for a "luxury ship," the Nieuw Amsterdam's, designers managed to keep in the spirit of these traditions...
Circle still "played" and still had point. The plot, like the title, is Euclidean, demonstrating how two triangles are equal in all respects. The husband, the wife and the lover of Triangle A are the older generation from whom the young people of Triangle B refuse to profit. The facts that Lady Kitty (Grace George) ran off with Lord Porteous and that they turn up 30 years later to serve as Horrible Examples do not deter Lady Kitty's daughter-in-law (Tallulah Bankhead) from running off with Teddy Luton (John Emery...
...Lazare wrote a commentary on Spinoza's Ethics, translated Descartes' Meditations from Latin into Russian. He was still in his teens when he studied abstruse mathematical logic and published attacks on non-Euclidean geometers. Meantime he was playing music on the side, making up little songs and waltzes for his cousins...
...atom and the universe-a theory for which Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...