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Also among the fellows are four refugees from Europe; an Italian archaeologist, an Austrian novelist, a German psychologist, and a Polish mathematician, all described by the Guggenheim donors as "outstanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Instructors Win Guggenheim Awards | 3/25/1941 | See Source »

...whether he actually has. In the same course, Widder makes you work hard, but is perhaps the clearest teacher in the department, and Whitney is adequate and fairly easy going. As to Math. 3, this is something you've got to have. Birkoff is a wonderful mathematician, but he isn't a good teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...Robert Ernest Doherty, president of Carnegie Tech, good bowler, golfer and mathematician who, besides knowing the inside of U. S. manufacturing technology, is a crack public relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: PPB | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...Mathematician Huntington's formula discards all formulas except the "test of equal proportions." A seat should not be taken from one State, given to another, unless the percentage difference between the Congressional districts in the two States is reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mathematics of Democracy | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Died. Mary Annette Beauchamp, Countess Russell (pen name: Elizabeth), 74, British novelist (Mr. Skeffington, Elizabeth and her German Garden, The Enchanted April), sister-in-law of Mathematician Bertrand Russell; of a blood infection following influenza; at Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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