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Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Ricci Tensor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Never mind now about Lagrange and Ricci; who was this Hamilton? Born, lived, and worked (1805-1865) in "nonscientific Dublin, of all places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Paganini Recital (Ruggiero Ricci, violin, with Louis Persinger, piano; Vox, 6 sides). A talented 26-year-old, who is soloist with the American Broadcasting Co. String Orchestra, uses these six show pieces of Paganini's to show that he is more nimble-fingered than some of the bigger names. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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