Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess enthusiasts call Master Nimzowitsch philosopher and artist as well as mathematician. Besides his System, he uses shrewd psychological strategy. In his game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's overaggressiveness, craftily exchanging pieces to gain a winning advantage. To hold his lead in the final game, he had to vanquish Grand Master Tartakower of Vienna. Noting that his adversary looked weary, he deployed on a lengthy rochade attack. After six hours Tartakower's game collapsed and sly Nimzowitsch...
...votes after Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat. Had the latter promised the public not to run again for mayor himself, the plan would have won, felt Boss Maschke. A mathematician, Manager Hopkins on election night calculated that if his margin of victory continued to dwindle in the same ratio at future elections, he would be voted out of his job-which would otherwise last for life-within five years...
Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton's Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto...
...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...
...Cardinal O'Connells recent attack on Einstein as an atheist (see p. 44). Mathematician Wiener made this reply...