Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead's wares were not for such men as the driver. For more than six decades he had displayed them to countless scholars and students, and not all of them were quite sure of what they saw. Nevertheless, Whitehead's wares had a wonderful reputation. On a platform and in his parlor, Whitehead's wit and wisdom were displayed most effectively. And when he put his style to it, he could write with crystalline clarity and poetic insight. But "getting me from my books," he once observed, "is not so much dangerous...
Furthermore in the technical wizards lies the key to the relationship between the independently-endowed Institute and Princeton proper. Hore the interplay of staff is most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...
...government need is for qualified specialists in the following positions: administrative technician, archeologist, astronomer, bacteriologist, chemist, economist, engineer, geographer, legal assistant, librarian, mathematician, metallurgist, patent examiner, physical, psychologist, social science analyst, and statistician...
...life. The faculty committee, named yesterday and headed by Provost Buck, is charged with deciding whether the peacetime occupation of the device will be in the social or natural sciences. Represented in the group are the fields of astrophysics and economics, engineering and social relations, as well as mathematician and laboratory director Howard H. Aiken...
Said Psychologist Terman: "We see no signs of a prospective statesman in the group; thus far, the highest elective office held by any...is that of Assemblyman. It contains...no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president. It gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys...." Psychologist Terman thinks the 1,400 entitled to another 25 years before making final judgment on them. But he has already come to one conclusion:"In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...