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Once upon a time there was an eminent mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who laid down his compasses and took up his pen. Thereat all children rejoiced, for they were given Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...Mathematician Wins. A $1,000 prize, for the most valuable contribution to science presented at the current meetings, was awarded to Dr. Leonard E. Dickson, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His achievement was a general mathematical theory including as special cases certain fundamental branches, such as quaternions and vector analysis. It is comparable in importance to the so-called calculus of Ricci and Levi Civita, which formed the mathematical basis for Einstein's general relativity theory. Unfortunately, these theories are so abstruse that only the trained mathematician can penetrate their mysteries. Laymen must take on faith...
...Dickson, aged 49, studied at Texas, Chicago, Leipzig, Paris, is internationally known. He is the only American mathematician who is a corresponding member of the French Academy of Science...
...late Lord Northcliffe. Lord Rothermere was always identified with the financial arrangements of the Northcliffe Press. At the time Lord Northcliffe, then Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, started his first newspaper venture (Answers), Lord Rothermere, then Harold Harmsworth, was in the Civil Service. He was accounted a brilliant mathematician and his advent to his brother's firm may safely be said to have laid the cornerstone of the Northcliffe fortune. Northcliff e had the journalistic gift and lacked, not business enterprise, but business ability; Rothermere lacked the former but was a positive genius in the business affairs of the firm...
...time until the 30 days of mourning had elapsed. . . . . The flags were raised to full mast once more on September 2, and on that very day Professor Fisher's tongue was loosened."- New York Tribune. Professor Fisher, at whose expense these remarks were made, was originally a mathematician, but shifted the center of his interests to economics. He is a good friend of William Howard Taft. He was a member of Theodore Roosevelt's National Conservation Commission, and was for 14 years an editor of The Yale Review. His hobbies are eugenics, public health in general, the League...