Word: logician
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...rates for one year," has the sinewy build (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) and face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician's mind to the problems of heavy industry. Reserved in manner, quiet in speech, he runs Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless...
...children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already adumbrated three volumes of the Principia Mathematica. Nor are his repeated references to Russell as "the greatest logician since Aristotle" as indubitable as they sound; Frege would be a more likely contender for this distinction, and Goedel perhaps an equal...
...rather wistful addendum, Aron says: "If tolerance is born of doubt, let us teach everyone to doubt all the models and Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...
...invitation to speak at the Institute came from Professor Kurt Godel whose work in 1931 led to the discovery of Post's problem 13 years later. Godel, described as "the foremost logician in the world today" by Hao Wang, assistant professor of Philosophy, had been trying to solve it for some time...
...this very special application of an international language, Bar-Hillel admits he would rather use Esperanto, which has an even simpler syntax than Interlingua and is thus "closer to the heart of the logician." Its superficial construction, however, considerably weakens Esperanto's position, since it is not the type of language which many people could be persuaded to learn. Most educated people would on the other hand have an immediate common meeting ground in Interlingua, provided they had some knowledge of a western language. Bar-Hillel's hobby is international language, he admits his views are highly subjective; he nevertheless...