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President Eisenhower last week named John Von Neumann, 50, a cheerful, portly professor with a passion for cookies and ionospheric mathematical problems, to be a member of the Atomic Energy Commission for a five-year term. Mathematician Von Neumann,* a Budapest-born naturalized American, has been a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study for 21 years, and is a close friend of Drs. Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He and his unique theories and formulas are the talk of economists and mathematicians the world over...
...Said Mathematician John von Neumann of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, who last week was appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) : "Very many people who have some trivial blot way back in their past do not know whether they can take a chance on getting into sensitive work ... To have once been dropped for security reasons is for the average person ... a professional catastrophe...
...incomprehensible and led to last week's U.S. show. Critic Leslie Portner of the Washington Post and Times Herald reported that "critics in Europe have been trying for quite some time now to cubbyhole Escher," and proceeded to review the holes: "They have called him a mathematician, because he uses geometric solids in many of his works. They might also call him a photographer, because of the precision of his exact realism; or a surrealist, for his surprising juxtapositions; or a visionary, because of his use of monsters and dragons; or an. architect, for his carefully rendered facades...
...Fourth brother Frank, a mathematician, all-round athlete, footballer and rifle shot. "Lovable, affectionate, happy and gentle." Frank had no time to ripen for anything but slaughter. In a letter marked "Not to be delivered till after my death," Frank bade his parents a cheerful farewell -"the parting will not be for long. Merely for an infinitesimal space of time out of eternity." He was killed at 22, three months after joining the Gloucester Regiment at the front in France...
Harvard's late famed Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead was far from the conventional absent-minded professor, but he did have occasional verbal lapses. One day he was cautioning a student about a theory of logic. "You must take it with a grain of er . . . um ... ah ..." For almost a minute, Whitehead groped for the word, until the student suggested. "Salt. Professor...