Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gray Swann, 48, president of the American Physical Society, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, played his 'cello. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, 66, played several of 40 flutes he brought from the Case School of Applied Science. Professor David Eugene Smith, 72, of Columbia, mathematician, told about the Oriental books which he collects as a companion hobby to his other hobby of historical, mathematical and astronomical instruments. Dr. Clarence N. Flickman, who researches for Bell Telephone Laboratories as he used to do for American Piano Co., shot arrows from a bow. Austin Hobart Clark...
Another light of learning already with Dr. Flexner's Institute is Professor Oswald Veblen, Princeton's mathematician. Mathematics is a brace for holding apparently unconnected phenomena together. For ordinary purposes three prongs of that brace suffice-length, breadth, height. But for profound science more grips on reality are needed-a variable time, for example And not only many grips are needed, but flexibility in their operation. The mathematical machine, most solid of the sciences, is constantly acquiring new links and kinks. One of its cleverest engineers is Professor Oswald Veblen...
...Duffield proposes to maintain a judicial rather than executive attitude. He will not go popping his head into classrooms or make long speeches at faculty meetings. The academic side of Princeton will remain in the capable hands of Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write...
Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten...
...world has much for which to thank the mathematician at Oxford. He has given a world to children not unlike the one they live in, and to older people he has given nonsense verses not unlike the kind of nonsense verse they would write, if they wrote nonsense verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect...