Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether he actually has. In the same course, Widder makes you work hard, but is perhaps the clearest teacher in the department, and Whitney is adequate and fairly easy going. As to Math. 3, this is something you've got to have. Birkoff is a wonderful mathematician, but he isn't a good teacher...
...Robert Ernest Doherty, president of Carnegie Tech, good bowler, golfer and mathematician who, besides knowing the inside of U. S. manufacturing technology, is a crack public relations...
Last week, as the Census Bureau organized its 1940 figures, a Harvard mathematician was studying a still unsolved problem in algebra unwittingly posed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Constitution says: "Representatives ... shall be apportioned among the several States ... according to their respective numbers . . . but each State shall have at least one Representative." "This problem," points out Harvard Mathematician Edward Vermilye Huntington, "has worried Congress into a state of great perplexity and bitter debate after every decennial census for over a hundred years." In a 41-page Senate Document he recently tackled the problem...
...Mathematician Huntington's formula discards all formulas except the "test of equal proportions." A seat should not be taken from one State, given to another, unless the percentage difference between the Congressional districts in the two States is reduced...
Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...