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MARTEREAU, by Nathalie Sarraute (250 pp.; Braziller; $3.75). This novel, by the author of the diamond-hard Portrait of a Man Unknown (TIME, Aug. 4, 1958), suggests that reality, like a geometer's plane, has only surface, no depth. A young male invalid, living with his rich aunt and...
Even a geometer could not calculate all the angles in squash-at least not quickly enough to make the shots. Squash is a game played on a walled, rectangular court (18½ ft. by 32 ft. in the U.S. game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is...
Erastothenes, a Greek geometer and astronomer who flourished about two centuries before Christ, is credited with being the first to entertain an accurate idea of the principles on which the determination of the figure ot the earth really depends. It is said that "his results were inaccurate, but his method...
"Greek geometer and astronomer" is spelled "Eratosthenes"). TIME, how- ever, was referring to popular conceptions : "For long men thought the earth was flat. In the latter part of the 15th Century, the idea began to get about," etc.-ED.
Gabriel Marcus Green was born in New York City, October 19, 1891. He attended the public schools there and graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1911. As an undergraduate he took high rank and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. He pursued his graduate...