Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in the Dominions. His father is Sir William Henry Bragg, who has a scientific reputation no less lustrous than his son's. In 1885 the elder Bragg sailed from England to assume a professorship of mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Primarily a mathematician, he bought a batch of textbooks, boned up on physics during the voyage...
...exchange for the French Mathematician, the University has sent to France Leigh Hoadley, who will lecture for the first semester, while Denjoy conducts a class and a seminar here...
...George Lyman Kittredge '82, indisputably the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsond Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father of many American writers; and Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher...
...other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective...
...Joseph Albert Greenwood, a boyish, piano-playing Duke mathematician, some time ago undertook to rebut this suggestion, by testing the operation of pure chance on no less than 500.000 cards. Last week he announced that he had obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was below but closely approximate to the expected five hits per 25, Dr. Greenwood felt he had proved Dr. Rhine's point-that telepathic and clairvoyant humans can make much better scores than are obtainable by random card-matching...