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...Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and mathematics . . . can be a veritable defense against ALL evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mathematics for Mits | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Probably the most versatile, and certainly the most eccentric, of all Macmillan authors was mathematician, clergyman and humorist Charles Lutwidge Dodson, who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lawn Tennis Tournaments: The True Method of Assigning Prizes, with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method; An Elementary Treatise on Determinants and Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry, For the Use of Beginners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macmillan's First 100 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...most distinguished rebels of his generation finally had a job last week that suited him. It was high time. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 71, by primogeniture third Earl Russell and Viscount Amberley, in his own right a world-famed mathematician and philosopher, accepted a Cambridge fellowship. It was offered him by his famed alma mater, Trinity College, which in 1916 dismissed him for a pacifism he no longer holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Earl Goes Home | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tribute to Gicmthood | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...late 1918 Fridén was a Marchant draftsman, with an eye for profits rare in a mathematician-inventor. When the U.S. Government made Marchant discontinue its current model because it violated some German patents, young Carl filled the void with his own model-for $100,000 plus $1 on every machine sold. The next Marchant crisis-a patent battle with Monroe Calculating Machine Co., the only direct Marchant competitor-ended up with peace and cross-licensing for the two companies; a neat $225,000 cash-and-consultant deal (plus stock) for Frid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVENTION: Calculator's Calculations | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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