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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Herr Krieger made headlines once more by announcing that he would reveal the values for x, y and z which would solve the Fermat equation. They turned out to be 1,324; 731; and 1,961. He would not reveal n-the power-but said it was less than 20. An astute reporter from the New York Times, no baby in mathematics himself, pored over this equation: 1,324 n +731 n =1,961 n . The reporter saw that the first number raised to any power at all would end in either 6 or 4, the second raised...
...n is the second power or square, there are many solutions...
Last October, a blond boy on a bicycle left Hollywood, pumping hard, and headed east for Flagstaff, Ariz. Just as the sun rose on the day after Thanksgiving, he dropped his bicycle on his grandmother's frosty lawn in Monroe, N. Y., curled up in a sleeping bag and went to sleep. He felt good, not only because he had covered 3,268 miles on $31 and had averaged 78 strenuous miles a day, but because on his way he had painted about 40 water colors. Last week 25 of them, exhibited at the Manhattan galleries of Charles...
...soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford, N...
John Marin is now 67 years old, a wry, shy, wrinkled little man with a long, sharp nose and grey hair in tousled bangs over his forehead. In winter he lives in Cliffside, N. J., and in summer he goes to Stonington, Me. He has not been out of this annual orbit since his two years in Taos, N. Mex. in 1929-30, a period when he says the brilliance of light in the desert made him "continually dippy." Painters like Tintoretto, Rembrandt and Goya he usually refers to as "those old boys." Last week his first visit to Manhattan...