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Numbers. Last week's discussions were mainly mathematical and astronomical. Mathematics is the purest of pure sciences, because its devotees may juggle their symbols without regard to reality. But: "It may happen that the mathematician will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later...
...undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...
Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having...
During his 69 years on this planet, Alan Spencer Hawkesworth of Washington, D. C., by profession a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, has served as mathematician in the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such...
...with Herbert Hoover, a notable change in the past three years has come over the public demeanor of Professor Albert Einstein. Whereas he was once almost as frozen and frightened in the presence of strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed...