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Except for a scattering of top-level mathematicians across the nation, and the students in his classes at M.I.T., few Americans had ever heard of Dirk J. Struik when his name first appeared in the news two years ago. He was a mousy-looking mathematician who had come to the U.S. from Holland in 1926, the author of half a dozen learned tomes, and a Marxist lecturer of note in Mexico, The Netherlands and the U.S.S.R. But by last week M.I.T.'s Professor Dirk Struik (pronounced strouk), was considerably better known in his adopted land. He was the center...
...Among them: Philosopher William Olaf Stapledon, Astronomer Michael W. Ovenden, Nuclear Physicist L. R. Shepherd, Mathematician D. F. Lawden...
...student days). He took enough interest in the outside world to get himself elected president of his class in its final year. In 1922 he married the sister-in-law of a faculty member, handsome Carmel Bentwich. He has three children: Hadassah, 28: now married to a mathematician and living in Connecticut; Ezra, 24, in his second year at Columbia University's School of International Affairs, and Emunah, 19, who is training for social work...
Struik, an internationally known mathematician, specializing in geometry, has been on M.I.T.'s faculty for 25 years. He was officially charged with violating a Massachusetts' General Law, entitled "Prohibition of Anarchy...
Struik, an internationally known mathematician, specializing in geometry, has been on M.I.T.'s faculty for 25 years. He was officially charged with violating a Massachusetts' General Law, entitled "Prohibition of Anarchy...