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...world has much for which to thank the mathematician at Oxford. He has given a world to children not unlike the one they live in, and to older people he has given nonsense verses not unlike the kind of nonsense verse they would write, if they wrote nonsense verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect...
French public opinion became incensed when the pacifist delegates, at a session earlier in the week, hissed and booed the cherished French thesis of "No Disarmament Without Security" expounded to the Conference by that great French mathematician M. Paul Painlevé, former Premier and War Minister. Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, sensed what was coming, refused to send a message to the Peace & Disarmament Conference, declared: "Catholics possess other means of making their ideas known on this delicate subject." Finally the Journal des Débats, often the voice of the French Government, denounced the Conference as "conceived . . . to force...
...deduction, Russell asserts: "Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do. ... Jeans's God. like Plato's, is one who has a passion for doing sums, but being a pure mathematician, is quite indifferent as to what the sums are about. . . . Eddington and Jeans contradict each other, and . . . both contradict the biological theologians, but all agree that in the last resort science should abdicate before what is called the religious consciousness. This attitude is regarded by themselves and by their admirers...
Very quickly telephones rang, messages arrived to say that this man was a Professor Ivantsov, mathematician at the Moscow Industrial Academy. U. S. reporters hurried around to Police Department headquarters to learn more about the mysterious end of Professor Ivantsov...
...Author. Nee Beauchamp, "Elizabeth's" present name is Elizabeth Mary Countess Russell. Her first husband was German Count von Arnim; her second, the late John Francis Stanley Earl Russell, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand (now Earl) Russell. Tiny, feminine, aristocratic. "Elizabeth" shrinks from publicity, has never written under her full name. Of her writing, reminiscent of well-bred but intelligent conversation, she says: "Like the Apostle Paul, I never think beforehand what I am to say." Other books: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Expiation, The Enchanted April...