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...physicists. All are devoted to "pure" rather than practical research-so pure that the physicists do not even have laboratories. One of the few bitter faculty clashes in the Institute's history was a fight over whether to retain the engineers brought in by Hungarian Mathematician John von Neumann to build a huge digital computer he had designed. The professors not only voted out the "hardware" men-but the computer as well. Less painfully, Oppenheimer in 1950 quietly phased out a school of economists who turned out to be more interested in advising Government and industry than in scholarly...
...Psychologist Jerome Bruner. But Oppenheimer has resisted pressure to broaden the Institute's scope with the argument that it is better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach to the analysis of differential equations at the Institute...
...meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
...much is fact. Author Habe was in Evian-les-Bains that July covering the conference for Prager Tagblatt, a German-language newspaper published in Prague. He knew Professor Neumann, Hitler's conscripted auctioneer, and as the meeting progressed to its apathetic conclusion-the offer refused, nothing whatsoever done about the Jews-Habe took copious notes on the proceedings and his long private sessions with the doctor. On that foundation, Habe, now 55, has built what he calls a documentary novel: the story of humanity's failure at Evian-les-Bains...
...Neumann and Pawlak were both brilliant, scoring 19 and 25 points respectively. Penn's big men were not so impressive, though 6-10 sophomore Tom Mallison did look good in a 13-point performance. The Quakers, however, completely dominated rebounding...