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...version whose release Walt Disney sued to block on the ground that it would cash in on his publicity (TIME, July 16). It turns its Alice (Carol Marsh) loose in a colorful wonderland of puppets and stylized sets after a live-action prologue purports to show how Mathematician Charles Dodgson cooked up his fantasy...
Another theory was developed by Britain's late Mathematician Edward A. Milne, who died last year. The light from the distant nebulae, said Milne, is "fossil light." It started its journey several hundred million years ago, and light in those ancient days may have been different from light today, just as dinosaurs are different from modern animals. The glowing calcium atoms that now give blue light, for instance, may have given green light then. When the fossil green light reaches the earth, Milne said, it fools astronomers into thinking that the nebulae it came from are moving away from...
...then," Goodwin says, "I had taught myself the equivalent of an undergraduate training in physics." ("That is absolutely untrue!" says Phillipe LeCorbeiller, Professor of Applied Physics, to whom Goodwin brought his early research for criticism. "His physics was on a very high graduate level.") "I'm a Sunday mathematician," says Goodwin. "I have no aptitude for math." ("Ha!" says LeCorbeiller. "Remember, whatever Richard Goodwin tells you about himself, that is by twelve shades an understatement...
...Smith undergraduates are distributed among 44 dormitories scattered over an area of 214 acres. To a simple-minded mathematician this would merely mean that there is one-tenth of an acre for each girl, but to the Smith student, the significance is much greater...
...letter had a more personal side. Last year Professor Schlauch's younger sister Helen and Helen's Polish-born husband, a mathematician at the University of Toronto, sold their house in Canada and moved to Warsaw. Her brother-in-law told Margaret last summer that she, too, could have "some kind of post...