Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That great, gentle mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevé asked a favor last week of his good friend Joseph Paul-Boncour, leader of the Right Wing Socialists, outstanding pacifist, fervent champion of the League of Nations before which he represented France in 1924-25. All that M. Painlevé asked of M. Paul-Boncour was that he would introduce and sponsor in the Chamber a bill proposing to spend 7,000,000 francs ($280,000) forthwith on armaments to protect the frontiers of France...
...collection includes pearly four hundred books and pamphlets together with many leaflets printed for Lewis Carroll's child friends, puzzles, original drawings, letters, and notes by the beloved author-mathematician, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Added to the material already in its possession, this gift makes the Harvard College collection of Lewis Carroll's works and memorabilia as fine as any in existence...
...subtle to be more than hinted at by lesser men. The chronicle unfolds itself, chiefly through the disordered thought currents and abrupt conversations of the characters, with all the perplexing yet inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences...
Such a pioneer was Robert Grosseteste born in 1175 of humble parents, who was to become before the end of his long life bishop of Lincoln, the first mathematician and physicist of his age, and one of the earliest of English statesmen...
...this respect his desires are fulfilled. Just as Mathematician Charles L. Dodgson quite vanished behind Lewis ("Wonderland") Carroll, so Political Economist Dr. Leacock is concealed- save where the solid metal of sense frequently thrusts through the dazzling enamel of nonsense- behind the author of Literary Lapses, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, etc., etc. These books, he modestly says, are "of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter...