Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost empty. Our small earth is "like a ship on an empty ocean." "Leave only three wasps alive in the whole of Europe and Europe will be more crowded with wasps than space with stars."† The quiet voice belonged to Sir James Hopwood Jeans, famed Cambridge astronomer-mathematician. Two months ago he had described his bubble universe in a notable lecture to British scientists and students at Cambridge. Most of them were alraedy familiar with the facts behind the cosmic picture he drew. Dr. Einstein in his original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter...
...Because Mathematician Einstein cannot keep his bank account correctly, she had to make most of the arrangements for the trip. She purchased new traveling clothes for both of them, discovered at the last minute that her husband's raincoat was too worn for visiting. A Berlin shopkeeper, impatient with her explanations, told her he must see her husband to fit the raincoat perfectly. She replied...
...women who are . . . scientific . . . are a race set apart ... a neutral people," in the opinion of Albert Einstein. And no neuter-lover is he. He was divorced 15 years ago from his first wife, Clara, Serbian mathematician, with whom he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and who bore his two sons, Albert and Edward...
While touching upon the value of the most recent mathematical theories on the analysis of statistical data as applied to the world of business and finance, Professor Huntington said, among other things, that "the mathematician of the future, instead of evolving silly puzzles about 'How old is Anne?' may be using higher mathematical equations to figure out the swing of the next market...
...enormous extension of its usefulness in practical human affairs. The second reason for the new popularity of mathematics is more vital and powerful. Mathematics is not only useful; it is extremely beautiful. The beauty of a mathematical result is the fundamental motive for its pursuit. Every creative mathematician is essentially a creative artist...