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...church, Swedenborg was a kind of Nordic Da Vinci. He invented a machine gun and a fire extinguisher, first explained to the world the phenomenon of phosphorescence and the function of the ductless glands, devised a nebular hypothesis to account for the origin of the universe. Metallurgist, physiologist and mathematician, he knew nine languages, and promoted fiscal reforms and liquor regulations as a member of Sweden's Diet...
...continuous creation, which holds that the universe is still being formed by particles that appear out of nothing in empty space. When he presented his new gravitation theory to a packed meeting of Britain's venerable Royal Society, he modestly described his work, done in collaboration with Indian Mathematician Jayant V. Narlikar, as a slight extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. "We are clearly aware," he explained, "that in putting forward still another idea we may be like small boys trying to steal apples...
...William Hodge, a mathematician and master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, is now in the United States, and is, therefore, a possibility, too. And since Lady Bird Johnson will be in Cambridge to deliver the Radcliffe Baccalaureate on June 9, one wonders if her husband might be coming here from Holy Cross College on the 11th...
Wiener eventually began to outgrow the effects of his hothouse education. He married happily and made an energetic entrance into the field of creative mathematics, the strange, unworldly specialty that he described brilliantly in I Am a Mathematician. Making his headquarters at M.I.T., he drifted from university to university, like a medieval scholar, but he remained almost a stranger in the vast world outside the classroom...
Died. Norbert Wiener, 69, M.I.T. mathematician, cyberneticist, linguist; of a heart attack; in Stockholm (see SCIENCE...