Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioned in the same breath with the above phenomena is the science of astrology, famed father of astronomy. Whether or not one believes in the influence of stars on human destiny, there is no denying that reputable astrologists go about their work with the precision of a mathematician. In New York State, for example, the practice of astrology has been legalized on a par with medicine and law. And last week in Ohio the State Supreme Court upheld licensed astrologers, but in a rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition: "one who pretends...
...foundation of the Integraph is a watthour meter of the same type as is commonly used in homes for recording electric power Integration is merely a mathematical way of expressing the sum of a series of numbers which vary according to a given equation. The mathematician, in using the machine to do away in an afternoon with months of calculating, plots equations on paper which is passed slowly under pointers in the 35-foot apparatus: Operators stationed along the length of the machine keep the pointers on the curves, and as these pointers move up and down, the power flowing...
...Princeton, N. J.; once a tutoring establishment patronized by sub-freshmen, sicklies, stupids, ineligible college athletes; now a full-fledged preparatory school; founded in 1914 and since directed by wiry Mathematician John...
...Poincare, who is also Minister of Finance and cousin of the famed mathematician, Jules Henri Poincare, took over the control of French finances last year (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). At that time, with the franc daily plunging to new depths, the amount the state owed the Bank of France stood at 38,350,000,000 francs - 150,000,000 francs under the newly constituted limit, previous Finance Ministers having raised the loan limit to keep pace with the printing presses...
...fact, it was once said that, if an inventor could make a machine to play chess, he would have little trouble in producing a thinking machine. Yet, last week, the French Academy of Sciences admitted Leonardo Torres y Quevodo, mathematician from Madrid, to associate membership because he effectively demonstrated a chess-playing machine. Senor Quevodo's automaton meets all emergencies of the game when less than half of the chessmen are on the board; is even able to stop playing in case its human opponent cheats...