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Ever since man perceived that the solar system is a cohort of planets revolving around a central sun, at different distances but in the same direction and in almost the same plane, he has wondered how it all started. Pierre Laplace, French mathematician (1749-1827), devised the celebrated "nebular hypothesis": that the solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down...
...married life of Bertrand Russell, nobly-born British mathematician and philosopher, has been unconventional. His first wife, Alys Pearsall Smith, a Quaker, divorced him in 1921 because he was about to have a child by another woman, Dora Winifred Black. His second wife, Dora Black, shared his view that people should "indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes." In 1933 she announced that she had had a child by British Journalist Griffin Barry. Two years later she divorced Earl Russell, charging him with adultery. Next year, at 64, Earl Russell married his former secretary, Patricia Helen Spence, who later...
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Because, for all his eccentricities, Bertrand Russell is an expert mathematician, an original philosopher and one of the most lucid modern writers, he has always been welcome in the world's great universities. A U. S. resident since 1938, he has taught at University of Chicago, University of California (this year), next fall will lecture at Harvard. Last week Bertrand Russell's career took a surprising turn: he was appointed a full professor and head of the philosophy department (beginning next February) of big, sprawling, pragmatic College of the City of New York...
...Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures, often amazing his uncle, Mathematician Louis More, dean of University of Cincinnati's Graduate School, brother of the late Princeton Intellectual Paul Elmer More. Said Uncle Louis once: "Bob is the greatest man with figures I ever saw." (At twelve, Bob Taft first exhibited this talent: sitting down with a collection of timetables...