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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. This candid account of his early life and career by old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell wittily explores and explains his preoccupation with the irrational and mystical quotient in human mathematics...
...Earl Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...
There followed a succession of passionate love affairs in which he was faithful-but only, as a mathematician might put it, in series. First there was Lady Ottoline Morrell; then an unnamed American, who later went mad. The recitation of these disasters seems can did enough, but it is the explications that Bertie strews like rosemary on their cold beds that do not seem right. One would like to have heard their side of the bed story...
...work is designed to revolve once every eight minutes and is powered by a hidden ¼-h.p. motor whose reduction shaft is embedded be low its 8-ft.-high triangular base. In mathematical terms, Infinity is based on the Möbius strip, named for the 19th century German mathematician A. F. Möbius. It consists of a loop twisted on itself so that it contains one continuous edge and one plane. As the great form revolved majestically for the first time last week, the early spring sun glinted off its evolving planes, creating an impression of perpetual motion...
Moynihan said yesterday that the results of the survey were "completely unexpected," even by the people who made it--a team of researchers headed by sociologist-mathematician James S. Coleman of Johns Hopkins University...