Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This left open the problem of w?ho is going to man the ships. In London soap circles, it was said that, while enough British seamen trained in whaling simply do not exist to man the British whaling fleet today, it could perfectly well be sent to Southern waters with British crews who could learn to hunt whales as they went along. In case the British whaling ships actually are sent south now with green crews, Norwegian whalers vowed last week that they will send their ships and experienced crews speeding ahead to the Antarctic and start a free...
Professor Elie Joseph Cartan of the University of Paris delivered an important paper on "The Extension of Tensor Analysis to Non-Affine Geometries." Speaking in French, bouncing with animation, gesturing with vehemence, this tanned, fox-bearded little man suggested a new mathematical approach to the great problem of a unified field theory which would embrace both the atom and the universe-a theory for which Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted...
...Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each half is equal...
...discourse on "Uncertain Inferences" Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher of the University of London, onetime investment statistician, conveyed the idea that, though mathematical logic may compress uncertainty into a small area, the smaller the area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households...
After a chapter devoted to the pace of U. S. life, called "Is Uncle Sam Insane?", Dr. Seabury boldly faces the problem of worry created by an insecure economic order. Says he: "Wrong social conditions that we refuse to change precipitate trouble. . . . Neurotic personal conditions we refuse to face intensify it. If we are not carrying disorder inside, we will meet the outside confusion with poise." He says that as a psychologist Emerson was more radical than Freud, asks readers to "consider how different Emily Dickinson would have been had she gone to Vassar and been a roommate of Edna...