Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine Chair, name d after the Dean of the Departments of Science was recently endowed by T. D. Jones, Princeton '76, of Chicago, who requested that the professorship be awarded to a creative mathematician of high distinction...
Sunday afternoon M. Painleve, often a premier always a mathematician, but occasionally a poor financier, departed a Chamber too uncongenial to him and his "compromise cabinet". Thus he added another of those political gestures which of late have given France the appearance of governmental epilepsy. The French nation again finds itself in a more than chaotic condition...
Captain T. J. J. See, Government mathematician, and astronomer at Mare Island, reveals to the world a discovery which beggars description. At last a scientist steps from his telescope and his nebular notes to admit that his labor has merely amounted to this: he has found Nothing. Yet even as his fellow scientists analyses the everythings which they have discovered, so he inspects his Nothing...
Capt. T. J. J. See, Government mathematician and astronomer at the Mare Island naval base (San Francisco, Cal.), has been conducting exhaustive experiments and computations upon-Nothing. Greater men than he have done the same, and he has been utilizing their findings - Sir Isaac Newton (gravity), Pierre Simon LaPlace (astronomy), Sir Christopher Wren (architecture). Nothing is important, for it permeates and envelops Everything. It would be nice to know definite things about it, what it is and does. Last week Capt. See announced something about Nothing...
...Rosie" had intelligent relatives. There was tall, cadaverous Joseph ("Old Joe") Rosenbaum, Cornell and Yale graduate, a mathematician who even cranked his automobile with the precision of a man bisecting a hypotenuse. There was tall, cadaverous Hyman ("Hymie") Rosenbaum, Pennsylvania graduate, another mathematician, a genius so absent-minded that the adolescent oafs he taught often mistook him for a "nut" at first. There was Harris Rosenbaum, Yale physicist, terse, timesaving, efficient. Later there was Joseph Rosenbaum II, Cornell botanist...