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...Fuss. Last week Kodak paid public reverence to all three. In Manhattan, President William Scott Vaughn, 60, a mathematician and onetime Rhodes scholar, announced that "George Eastman's idea was to 'make a camera as easy to use as the pencil'-and picture taking now becomes that easy." What makes it so, in Vaughn's view, is the latest developments from Kodak's researchers: new Kodak still-film cartridges that pop in and out like blades in a razor, and four new models of "Instamatic" cameras (prices: $16 to $110) that use the film...
...interested in the article on taxes [Feb. 1] in which it was pointed out that "the late great Albert Einstein once admitted that figuring out his U.S. income tax was beyond him-he had to go to a tax consultant. 'This is too difficult for a mathematician,' said Einstein. 'It takes a philosopher...
...late great Albert Einstein once admitted that figuring out his U.S. income tax was beyond him-he had to go to a tax consultant. "This is too difficult for a mathematician," said Einstein. "It takes a philosopher...
...Small Martingale. Professional gamblers generally take Mathematician Thorp and his computerized charts with a sneer and a leer; system players, they say, are always ultimate losers because they play on and on, giving the house odds a chance to operate. The only successful system, known as the Small Martingale, is to double the bet after each losing play, a maneuver the casinos effectively counter by establishing a bet limit. With a limit of $500, a doubler starting at $1 would have to bet an illegal $512 after only nine consecutive losses...
There is now a quite fashionable intellectual cult dedicated to proclaiming the unity of the sciences and the humanities. Rhapsodies about the poet as the mathematician's partner in framing the Universe in the image of man's mind are among the cult's offspring. "History, seen in the large, provides no sanction for a conflict between the sciences and the arts," writes a prominent physicist discoursing on the nature of physical reality; and he claims to show even the of the sciences and the humanities to be essentially the same...