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...ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great mathematician, a great engineer, a great architect." ¶ Painter "Dr. Atl": "Orozco never did understand how to use color." A¶Architect Juan O'Gorman: "José Clemente was incapable of talking rationally or thinking rationally about anything. I often asked him before and after the war why he wore...
...Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method. "It took me about 15 years," he says, "and I had some very expert help." Most valuable helper: Toronto Insurance Executive William M. Anderson, a bridge buff and mathematician...
...field of excellence-writing Civil War history. That year he decided to follow an old interest, write a short book on the war's last year. Commencing work at 6 a.m., teaching classes in an authoritative, no-nonsense fashion in the afternoon and writing more history at night, Mathematician-Historian Williams began to produce something far different-an orderly, exhaustive study of Northern command: Lincoln Finds a General. With two volumes out, the work was assessed as potentially "the soundest military history of the North yet written," earned similar high praise with succeeding volumes (the sixth and last...
...Began. In San Jose, Calif., after International Business Machines Corp. installed a large electronic computer in a new plant, Mathematician William Mitchell equipped it with a glass-enclosed Chinese abacus and a sign reading: "In case of emergency, break glass...
...remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize...