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Word: mathematicians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then at the University of Chicago, submitted the plans that looked best to Col. Thompson, was hired forthwith, spent three years studying research methods at home and abroad before opening the Institute. His staff likes him because he does not isolate projects but encourages entomologist, botanist, physical chemist and mathematician to get their heads together. He gives some one absolute charge of every enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plantarium | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...every mathematician knows, the size of a prime number is theoretically unlimited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Marin Mersenne, 17th Century mathematician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Divorced- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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