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Edward Vermilye Huntington '95, professor of Mechanics, emeritus, died in his Cambridge home yesterday at the age of 78. A noted mathematician, he authored four-place tables of logarithms and trigometric functions. In 1941, Congress enacted into law his method of apportioning Representatives after the Senate had appointed him to survey existing methods...
Divorced. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 80, mathematician, philosopher, author, lecturer; by Countess Russell, the former Patricia Helen Spence, 41, his third wife and onetime secretary, who charged desertion; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in London...
There are no little men at a racetrack. You pays your money and you takes your choice and Eddie Arcaro and Hill Gail are working for you. It's a challenge to the sporting enthusiast, the mathematician, the donester...
...just a routine chore that young (29) Mathematician Derek Price intended to do in the Peterhouse Library at the University of Cambridge. All he wanted was a look at a certain 14th century manuscript in connection with a history he was writing on scientific instruments. But as soon as the manuscript was brought to him one day last December, Price felt his pulse begin to quicken. By last week, medievalists all over Britain were talking about the mystery unearthed by Price: Who was the author...
...Murray Gerstenhaber 3G, a research mathematician at the University, this week received his second straight $3,000 fellowship...