Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...misrepresentations in a letter from Cornell to a Western paper, which you copied and which was recopied by the Era with comments, which amounted to an endorsement, have drawn forth an indignant rejoinder from Prof. J. E. Oliver, the distinguished mathematician. It was insinuated in uncomplimentary terms, by the correspondent referred to, that the Cornell faculty was subjected to humiliating tyranny by President White. Professor Oliver is personally responsible for the statement that "the president would be the very last man to seek to impose his wishes as law upon his colleagues as against their own judgments and that...
Prof. J. J. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, and a grave man of science whom the late Prof. Peirce pronounced to be the best mathematician in the country, is now discovered to be a poet of not a little ability...
...week, the University loses its greatest light in science, and perhaps the most distinguished of its professors. Mr. Peirce had been for forty-seven years a professor in the College, -the longest time, with but one exception, that any one has held such a position. He was a born mathematician, with a special talent for astronomy as well. During the whole of his long and honorable career he was noted for his untiring energy, as well as for the brilliancy of the results at which he arrived. This year he intended to give a new course, - Cosmical Physics, - in which...