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Other men than Rossby noted this startling fact. Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope, the first effective television-camera tube, sold the idea to his Princeton neighbor, the great Mathematician John von Neumann. Teaming up with Rossby, who provided the meteorological knowledge, Von Neumann and his brilliant assistant Dr. Jule Charney devised ingenious mathematical tricks to shoehorn weather observations into computing machines...
...Peter Neumann '54, a graduate student in math who knew Boston musical circles by heart, came up with many of the solutions. He found musical director Hewitt Pantaleoni, a graduate student in the Music Department, out of thin air, and led the search for a stage director...
...beginning of September, Steel called for pre-registration voice rehearsals and a willing cast drifted into Cambridge a week before the term began. Neumann began to attend every student orchestra concert in the area, collecting the best talent he could find for The Barber of Seville's own 25-piece orchestra which must fill Agassiz's non-existent...
Newman's commentaries deftly introduce such diverse figures as Physicists Galileo and Newton, Economists Keynes and Malthus, Mathematicians von Neumann and Russell, Humorists Carroll (who also taught geometry) and Leacock. The subject matter is equally varied, includes Daniel Bernoulli's kinetic theory of gases, Clement Durell's discussion of Einstein's theory of relativity ("It is against common sense," says Newman of the theory, "but so at first were the ideas of vaccination and of men living upside down in the Antipodes"), a mathematical assessment of military strength by Frederick Lanchester (Newman notes that abstract theories...
...ceremonies summa cum laude graduate Marina von Neumann, from Setauket, L.I., was awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, given to that member of the graduating class "who during her course, by her scholarship, conduct, and character, has shown evidence of the greatest promise...