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...interest in religion, in fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual and academic quality of a professor at the institute." When Geertz challenged their credentials to judge, White retorted: "This guy doesn't write in Chinese, in Japanese, or in mathematical symbols we can't understand. This wasn...
...year hitch in the Navy, then returned to Cornell to finish near the top of his class, this time as an English major. V. was written on a $500 advance in New York. But Pynchon soon fled the city for Seattle, where his abilities as a mathematician and writer got him a technical writing job at Boeing Aircraft...
...Wolfe moved from the school yard to the IAB--still spending the better part of his day on the court. At Harvard, he's practical about his school work and gets by with B s. Our third-grade teacher would be surprised to see that her star mathematician has found a new love...
...innovators have over the years developed variations that make the game even more complex. In one version called Capablanca Concentric Chess, the pieces move in spiraling arcs around a circular board. A number of three-dimensional chess games have also made their appearance, including one invented by Russian-born Mathematician Ervand G. Kogbetliantz that was so bewildering that it never really caught on; it is played on an eight-tiered board with 64 pieces to a side. Now, working independently, two other buffs have devised chesslike games for three players, all competing at the same time. Both encourage the formation...
Died. Dr. Solomon Lefschetz, 88, pioneering mathematician in algebraic geometry and topology (the study of constant properties in changing geometric forms); in Princeton, N.J. Trained as an engineer, Lefschetz turned to theoretical mathematics after losing both hands in a 1910 accident. For nearly 30 years the peppery theorist was on the Princeton faculty, where colleagues called him G.W.F., for Great White Father. He also edited Annals of Mathematics, making it one of the most respected journals of its kind...