Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these papers he correctly spotted the students as Jewish or non-Jewish. In 21 cases he missed. A mathematician showed him that the probability of this performance having resulted from pure chance was only...
...companies ably, so Mr. Hopson financed them astutely. Stocks of his numerous holding companies were sold to the public but control of the two companies at the top of the pyramid remained with him and John Isaac Mange, president and later chairman of the system. Mr. Hopson, shrewd mathematician, invented many complicated kinds of securities for sale to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Associated Gas & Electric Co. has or has had (the system changes so often that A. G. E. can generally catch in error anybody who ventures to describe it) three classes of common stock...
Richard Hieck was a mathematics student at a German university. Poor, ungainly, shyly incoherent, he was a good mathematician and ambitious to be a great one. So intent was he on the higher nature of his beloved science that it seemed right to him to be contemptuous of the easy chatter around him. He felt "an amazement, tempered with hatred, at the volubility of the human race, the infamous readiness with which people strung words together into half-articulate speech without having the slightest inkling of the essential meaning of things." Richard's mother was just beginning to enjoy...
...struggling with the agonizing fractions of adolescence: he suspected his best friend and his mother of at least wanting to be lovers, and because none of them had the wit to stop him in time, ran off one night and drowned himself. Richard found he was less pure a mathematician than he had thought, doubted that he would ever solve man's microcosmic problem, but knew he would never give up trying...
Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher and mathematician, once ventured to suggest that if the nose of Cleopatra had been smaller the whole face of the earth would be different. It is debatable just how much influence the Queen's nose had in enchanting the beloved Anthony but that noses have had no small part in the making of individual and national history will go without question. So must is this fact recognized today that Professor Donald Laird of Colgate University is making a special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals...