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...obvious. As long as the monkey merely hung onto the rope, both the monkey and the equivalent weight would be at rest: the resultant of forces exerted on the rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
...bowed politely and asked permission to take them for walks or to pantomimes. Then he began "taming" them, i.e., drawing them into intimate friendship. His Diaries record the "taming" of scores of little girls, a few of whom created the rare "whitestone" days in the life of the visionary mathematician. But he seems to have preferred quantity to quality. In 1877 he records and cites by name and nickname a record haul-35 tamed or half-tamed little girls in the course of one short summer holiday. He also records the most shocking blunder of his life-chastely kissing little...
...Missouri Baptist preacher, sturdy, bulb-nosed Ernest Wilkins became a brilliant mathematician and a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, wrote a thesis on algebraic numbers theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's law school, became a prosperous lawyer, was president of the Cook County Bar Association in 1941-42. One of the leading U.S. laymen in the Methodist Church, Republican Wilkins has been serving as vice chairman of the presidential committee seeking to eliminate racial discrimination in plants with Government...
...alumnus of the Atomic Energy Commission plant at Los Alamos, Lehrer has been on a brief leave from his defense job as "theoretical physicist, research mathematician, spectroscopist, or what have you" in Cambridge, Mass. Next week he is due back at his desk, where, says Lehrer, "I sit and think...
...Mathematician George Abram Miller never had any children of his own, but his students at the University of Illinois liked to call him "Papa." A stubby, white-thatched little man who always kept a box of nuts handy for the squirrels, he was an expert on the theory of finite groups, published more than 800 learned articles, owned one of the best private mathematical libraries in the U.S. But for all his brilliance, Papa Miller had a distracted air that sometimes seemed complete bewilderment. He was hopeless with a car, helpless with a furnace, and he invariably began his sentences...