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...great mathematician had been interested in Haya's theory of relativity in history.* He had agreed enthusiastically with Haya that only continental American unity can save the U.N., and had said that unity must be achieved...
...Twelfth Century Persian mathematician, court astronomer for Sultan Malik-Shah, epigrammatist and classmate of Hassan ben Sabbah ("The Old Man of the Mountain"), who founded the fanatical hashish-smoking Persian Assassins...
...words-"non-scientific Dublin, of all places"-in an otherwise excellent account,' your reporter on Schrodinger [TIME, Feb. 10] needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...
...Dublin-born Higher Mathematician Synge call to mind his city's great ghosts (among them, his uncle's-author of The Playboy of the Western World), and admit that Dublin is a writer's town...
Asking for both qualities in all Mathematics instructors is like asking for the moon. And, of necessity, a permanent staff member--there are ten--is chosen primarily for his ability as a mathematician, not us a teacher. The fact that over half the Department's men may be adequate teachers, however, does not men that there is no issue. Saying that the problem is exaggerated is no salve to the many students who have had to step to the next higher rung of the ladder with only a foggy notion of how they get past the preceding...