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Less enthusiastic about the new degree was Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics, who said, "I would rather see the M.A. given more recognition." But he favored the plan, acknowledging that the Ph.D. has become a sort of mathematician's union card and that at present too many competent men are denied a chance for a successful teaching career...
...machines become truly intelligent? Mathematician John D. Williams of the Rand Corp. told a Tempe, Ariz. meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that they can and probably will become more intelligent than...
...such leaps of faith in the possibilities of the future, it is small wonder that an electric atmosphere pervaded the whole of science in 1960. "I could have lived in no other age in which so intoxicating and beautiful a series of discoveries could have been made," breathes British Mathematician Jacob Bronowski. "If I have any regrets at the thought of dying, it is that we live in so explosive a time that discoveries will continue to be made that I will know nothing about...
Died. Eric Temple Bell, 77, eminent Caltech mathematician (his specialty: the theory of numbers) and science fiction writer (under the name John Taine), whose works ranged from Algebraic Arithmetic to The Cosmic Geoids; of a heart attack; in Watsonville, Calif...
Speakers will include Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics. An applied physicist, an engineer, and an applied mathematician will also give talks...