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Many of Carter's budget decisions came down on the side of the young, the black, the poor, the small businessman. Small was beautiful, large was suspect. Yet the mathematician in Carter dragged him to the understanding that he had to entice corporate America to greater efforts through tax incentives. The welfare of Ms little people depended...
...John Wheeler. The conundrums they pose are also notable. How did the universe come into being? Why do we sleep? How are galaxies formed? What is consciousness? Why does a species become extinct? The problem that the experts had simply in formulating these questions is perhaps best expressed by Mathematician C.J.S. Clarke: "It is far from clear just what it is we are ignorant of: despite millennia of attempts, no scientific language yet exists for turning one's vague feeling of mystery into sufficiently concrete questions...
...show clearly supported the idea that the huge drawings on Peru's Nazca plains could have been made only with the help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography and explained that they showed the psychic "auras" of people and plants. Scientists have reported that the auras are a common electrical phenomenon called coronal discharge...
Claudius Ptolemy, the second-century Greek mathematician whose word on the heavens was law for some 1,400 years, has long been considered the king of ancient astronomers. Now an iconoclastic physicist is seeking to dethrone him. After an eight-year study of the Syntaxis, Ptolemy's 13-volume collection of celestial observations, Robert R. Newton of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University has concluded that Ptolemy faked his figures. In his just-published The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (Johns Hopkins University Press; $22.50), Newton minces no words: "Ptolemy is not the greatest astronomer of antiquity...
Nathanson, who is on leave from Southern Illinois University, where he is a professor of mathematics, said yesterday the Soviet Union presumably denied him the visa because during a 1972 stay in Moscow, Nathanson befriended a Soviet mathematician who subsequently applied to emigrate...