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...daughter of Mathematician John von Neumann, co-developer of the theory of games, the comely Mrs. Whitman graduated from Radcliffe with the top scholastic average in her class ('56), earned a Ph.D. at Columbia, and later settled in Pittsburgh. She worked for the council as a senior staff economist in 1970-71 and last October was named to the Price Commission. There she has proved a tough and highly capable overseer of Phase II prices; she argued strongly against allowing coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved...
...story is basically melodrama, but contains the seeds of something more complex. Dustin Hoffman plays David Sumner, an American mathematician who marries a stunning Cornwall lass (Susan George) and moves back to a farm in her hometown. It's primitive, this Cornwall; all the girls seem to have married out, and the only workers we see are farmhands and local craftsmen--aside from the minister, the sheriff, and the bartender...
STRAW DOGS. Sam Peckinpah's harrowing portrait of heroism turned to animalism as a shy mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) fights off thugs besieging his house...
David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) in Straw Dogs is a man sure of nothing save his own intense vulnerability. An American mathematician, he has come with his wife Amy (Susan George) to her native village on the windy coast of Cornwall, where he hopes to spend a year doing research. He is also attempting to flee the chaotic violence of the U.S. -and to patch up an uneasy marriage. But there is to be no hiding place...
Since ancient times, mathematicians have been fascinated by the problem of determining the square root of 2 -that number which, when multiplied by itself, will equal 2. As early as 1750 B.C., the Babylonians computed a value that was accurate to five decimal places (1.41421). By 1967, researchers in England, working with a computer, had stretched the answer to 100,000 digits. Now a Columbia University mathematician has surpassed even that prodigious effort. In what may well be the lengthiest computation of a mathematical constant of all time, Jacques Dutka has calculated the square root of 2 to more than...