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...late 1960s, a top British mathematician, Dr. John Fleming, monitors the trial run of a newly built radio telescope at bleak Bouldershaw Fell. With just these few clues, any science fiction fan knows what to expect: signals from outer space...
Also, Isabel Canet, a marine zoologist formerly director of the Fisheries Research Center in Havana, Cubs; Selma T. Damon, a dentist and the wife of Albert Damon, associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health; and Mildred G. Goldberger, a mathematician who plans to study the teaching of elementary school mathematics...
...years scholars have known about this dating system, but tracing astronomical motions backward for more than 2,000 years is forbiddingly time consuming for slow-working human brains. So Mathematician Bryant Tuckerman of IBM got time on a 704 computer. In 40 hours of electronic calculation the 704 riffled through reams of arithmetic and disgorged 301 tables of figures showing the positions of the moon, Venus and Mercury at five-day intervals, and of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the sun at ten-day intervals between 601 B.C. to A.D. Ι. The orbital equations used by the monster computer gave results...
...Many of the new products used every day in the home are highly complex," observed the President of the U.S. "The housewife is called upon to be an amateur electrician, mechanic, chemist, toxicologist, dietician and mathematician-but she is rarely furnished the information she needs to perform these tasks proficiently...
Actually the Marienbad match game is a variation of one of the most ancient of all two-person mathematical divertissements. Originating in China around 3000 B.C., it was given the name Nim by Harvard Mathematician Charles Leonard Bouton, who found, in 1901, that a strategy using move combinations based on binary numbers would make anyone a winner. All the successful player has to do is memorize them...