Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mathematician, stick to your muttons. So hints Astronomer Sir James Jeans. "It is true, in a sense somewhat different from that intended by Galileo, that 'Nature's great book is written in mathematical language.' So true is it that no one except a mathematician need ever hope fully to understand those branches of science which try to un ravel universe-the theory fundamental of nature of relativity, the the theory of quanta and the wave-mechanics...
...some mathematicians, like Jeans, are bilingual, can also make themselves understood in fairly plain English. Cautious, Jeans concepts does can not be admit that translated; math says the most you can do is to talk in analogies that must not be taken too literally. "A scientific study of the action of the uni verse appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician. . . . The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
Shipped by airplane from Copenhagen to Berlin, Miss Borring spent her day with Mathematician Einstein before he left for London. They talked about Relativity, Pacifism...
...Josiah Macy Jr. Fund, created six months ago by Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd (of the rich New Jersey Macy family), established a fellowship to pay the expenses of an assistant for Dr. Einstein. First incumbent will be Dr. Einstein's good friend and familiar, Dr. Walter Mayer, mathematician at the University of Vienna...
...ardent Sovialist: a talented musician anda owrld renowned mathematician the professor has earned a reputation as a free-thinker. He uses a spelling system of his own invention and often entertains his lecture audiences by performing on a five stringed cello which he developed himself...