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Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, once ventured to suggest that if the nose of Cleopatra had been smaller the whole face of the earth would be different. It is debatable just how much influence the Queen's nose had in enchanting the beloved Anthony but that noses have had no small part in the making of individual and national history will go without question. So must is this fact recognized today that Professor Donald Laird of Colgate University is making a special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals...
...then at the University of Chicago, submitted the plans that looked best to Col. Thompson, was hired forthwith, spent three years studying research methods at home and abroad before opening the Institute. His staff likes him because he does not isolate projects but encourages entomologist, botanist, physical chemist and mathematician to get their heads together. He gives some one absolute charge of every enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter...
...every mathematician knows, the size of a prime number is theoretically unlimited...
...Marin Mersenne, 17th Century mathematician...
Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam...