Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie kid back home after an encounter with aliens, pirates or the wartime Japanese, he walked into the woods of Eureka, Calif., to begin shooting The Lost World. "A chortle came out of me when I saw him that first day," says Jeff Goldblum, who reprises his role as mathematician Ian Malcolm. "He said he was nervous because he hadn't directed in a while, but he fell right into it. He was massively prepared, brimming with confidence--a creative, improvisatory force on the set, thrilled and confused about making stuff up right there...
...toilet tissue trumpet their product's softness, durability and economy, but what about a white embossed paper, above left, that both celebrates the solution to one of the great conundrums of modern science and appears bulkier despite using 15% less paper? In 1974, Sir Roger Penrose, the esteemed Oxford mathematician, devised a geometric pattern--dubbed the Penrose Pattern--that demonstrated for the first time that a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature, above right. Then one day Sir Roger noticed that the design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue bore a striking resemblance to his unique pattern. This...
...mathematician by training, Berezovsky, 51, entered private enterprise in the late 1980s by founding Logovaz, now Russia's largest car dealer. Today his interests include banking, oil, TV broadcasting and airlines. More than his peers, Berezovsky has used his now considerable wealth to make friends in high places: his financial support was crucial to Yeltsin's against-the-odds re-election last year...
...late George D. Birkhoff, who was also a mathematician and Harvard faculty member, Birkhoff taught at Harvard from 1933 until his retirement...
DIED. PAUL ERDOS, 83, quirky Hungarian-American mathematician with more than 1,500 papers to his name; of a heart attack while living homeless, by choice; in Warsaw...