Word: geometricians
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...academic profession. Unamuno looks at life passionately and sees it as a tragedy. Says he, in the prologue to Three Exemplary Novels: "I believe the curve of the hyperbole strives - just so! to join with its asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this...
Rooms decorated in antique tradition, Chambers adorned with a dado in pine, Studies designed by a geometrician,--Corners he laid out by sine and cosine...