Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls, computed cube roots in his head, invoiced store stocks from memory. Always he said: "I don't know how I do it." A year ago he had a red granite stone set up in a cemetery inscribed: ''William L. Strong, world's greatest mathematician. Wonderful...
...minions are not wholly occupied by Mr. Geddes' public projects. They also help him to make games. For in esoteric circles gamester Geddes is acclaimed Manhattan's greatest. Auction bridge and poker are dismal to him, and so, with the fervor and precision of a half-mad mathematician, he creates games colossal in scale, appalling in complexity...
...with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...
...system, since the intent is to prevent any large concentration of men working on the same subjects. We must then assume that diversity of intellectual appreciation, like breadth of social experience, is the object of the House plan. In other words it is expected that an art student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart his special knowledge toward the common edification. The smallest experience of student gatherings and student conversation ought sufficiently to reveal the visionary character of such an expectation. What will happen in the chance...
Died. Prof. Henry Burchard Fine, 70, dean of Princeton scientists, able mathematician, acting President (1910-12) following Woodrow Wilson; when struck by an auto while bicycle riding; in Princeton...