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Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
...Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia Mathematician Edward Kasner (Mathematics and the Imagination), one of the world's top geometers...
...year after that he spent a week staring into the open fire in his Paris apartment, occasionally knocking off to munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with Einstein...
...then, Marples notices, a don was apt to leave his mark upon the language. Mathematician C. L. Dodgson (Lewis
Many of his colleagues, while admitting that he is a great mathematician, accuse him of sensationalism. Wiener's admirers reply that such bickering is only to be expected in a field as lively as cybernetics. Peace does not reign in a science, they say, until its peaks and valleys have worn to a featureless peneplain grazed by placid ruminants...