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...almost empty. Our small earth is "like a ship on an empty ocean." "Leave only three wasps alive in the whole of Europe and Europe will be more crowded with wasps than space with stars."† The quiet voice belonged to Sir James Hopwood Jeans, famed Cambridge astronomer-mathematician. Two months ago he had described his bubble universe in a notable lecture to British scientists and students at Cambridge. Most of them were alraedy familiar with the facts behind the cosmic picture he drew. Dr. Einstein in his original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter...
...Other mathematicians have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...
...Because Mathematician Einstein cannot keep his bank account correctly, she had to make most of the arrangements for the trip. She purchased new traveling clothes for both of them, discovered at the last minute that her husband's raincoat was too worn for visiting. A Berlin shopkeeper, impatient with her explanations, told her he must see her husband to fit the raincoat perfectly. She replied...
...women who are . . . scientific . . . are a race set apart ... a neutral people," in the opinion of Albert Einstein. And no neuter-lover is he. He was divorced 15 years ago from his first wife, Clara, Serbian mathematician, with whom he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and who bore his two sons, Albert and Edward...
...enormous extension of its usefulness in practical human affairs. The second reason for the new popularity of mathematics is more vital and powerful. Mathematics is not only useful; it is extremely beautiful. The beauty of a mathematical result is the fundamental motive for its pursuit. Every creative mathematician is essentially a creative artist...