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...Today's biologist is bringing together the disciplines of the chemist, physicist, mathematician and many others, achieving thereby the unifying concepts of the cellular activity. We are entering a new world," Berry said, "as one can see brilliantly exemplified at the Brigham...
...Birmingham ruled that the University of Alabama must accept two Negro applicants for the beginning of the summer session starting June 10. One is a girl, Vivian J. Malone, 20, who plans to go to the main university campus at Tuscaloosa. The other is David M. McGlathery, 26, a mathematician who had petitioned for postgraduate study at the university's Huntsville branch. Alabama's Governor George Wallace immediately announced that the Negroes would get into either Tuscaloosa or Huntsville only by walking over his body. Cried he: "I'm going to be wherever any Negro attempts...
America's Money. When scientists discuss NASA's requested $5.7 billion budget, they show themselves deeply divided. A large and influential faction believes that the cost of man-on-the-moon could be better spent in other ways. In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Mathematician Warren Weaver, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, estimates that the $30 billion to be spent before 1970 would do all of the following...
...Discovered by French Mathematician Edouard Roche in 1850. For the present earth-moon system. Roche's limit is about 9,700 miles from the earth's center. The limit applies to bodies held together principally by gravitation, not to man-made satellites...
Such a statement, the mathematician will say, involves a flagrant abuse of the concept of number. Yes--just as the moral and religious writings of Nietzsche involve the flagrant abuse of ethical and theological concepts. The ironical misuse of terms often draws attention to concealed weaknesses and camouflaged absurdities...