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...Redundancy," as devised by Mathematician Claude E. Shannon and others, is an evaluation of the effectiveness of the varied forms of communication-e.g., telegraphy, speech, art, music, semaphore, television-in terms of the idea that a certain percentage of symbols in a message does not convey information but merely combats "noise." Noise is sometimes defined as anything from the static of a radio message to a wall of fear, prejudice or misinformation existing in the mind of the listener...
Died. Herman Weyl, 70, famed German-born mathematician, professor emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, author (The Open World, Mind and Nature); of a heart attack; in Zurich. One of the original faculty members, Dr. Weyl joined the institute in 1933 after repeated invitations from the late Dr. Albert Einstein...
Many people, impatient with man's mental limitations, insist that he has a whole set of hidden abilities that have long been ignored. In one such school are University of London Mathematician S. G. Soal and Duke University Psychologist Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, who term themselves parapsychologists.* They use sets of dice and packs of cards bearing numbers, letters or symbols, say that certain subjects can guess card identities or control the roll of dice beyond mathematical probability-even from a great distance. Their explanation: there exists in the human makeup a mysterious force called psi (from the Greek...
...central Pennsylvania, wrote his sermons in Latin and begat 18 children. Young Mark grew up steeped in respectability, devoutness and Victorian culture. By the time he went to Harvard in 1886 and met James Russell Lowell and the senior Holmes, he knew where he belonged. Another adopted Bostonian, Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, once said that if he were asked to pick one person to send to Mars as a representative of the human race, he would choose Mark Howe...
...advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says wryly-dishwashing. He plays the guitar, likes chess and a careful game of bridge. He writes weekly to his children (two daughters and one son, a senior I.B.M. mathematician), sends postcards to his six grandchildren. Scrupulous about the ethics of high office, he never lets his wife take his Government-furnished limousine for her own use. When he was vice president of Bell Laboratories, which makes most U.S. telephones, he refused to use any influence...