Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name when he was long dead. His suggestions were carried out broadly by his secretary, Hobbes; in inductive psychology by Locke; in utilitarian economics by Bentham. Baruch Spinoza (1632-77). No sooner had Bacon fathered a school of objective scientists in England than Descartes of France, a mathematician, started a subjective school whose first point was: "I think, therefore I am." This metaphysical statement caused much activity later on in Germany. It did not trap Spinoza, brilliant young Jew of Amsterdam, who, after being excommunicated by his synagogue, filled his solitude with polishing lenses and writing four bocks to unify...
Bertrand Russell (1872-) is a courageous English mathematician who, though disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
EDUCATION AND THE GOOD LIFE- Bertrand Russell-Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This is a book for which a thoughtful public's appetite has been sharply whetted. When Mr. Russell, Britain's celebrated philosopher and mathematician, entered the field of psychology, it became apparent that he is no idle perfectionist but a thinker who refuses to shirk the humanistic implications of his theories. "What will he have to say about education?" was the question, underscored by the arrival of the Russells' two children...
...Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French religious philosopher and mathematician...
Time. Dr. E. W. Brown, Yale astronomer and mathematician, discoursed on his tables of the moon and data collected during the 1925 total eclipse (TIME, Nov. 24, 1924, et seq.). He could show that the moon is lopsided, heavier at the bottom than...