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Working in his Berlin study, musing in his sailboat on Wannsee, lolling in his beach chair at Luebeck, Albert Einstein figured out a new metric. It lies between Euclid's and Riemann's conceptions. It shows that gravity, electricity, magnetism, everything is a logical, not chance, part of the world. It enabled him last week to phrase in mathematical terms a theory by which "everything in the world" can be explained. Albert Einstein's theories have altered human existence not at all. But they have revolutionized human understanding of existence...
Professor Ahlfors, winner of the Field's Medal for Mathematical Research at the International Congress of Mathematics in 1936, is especially known for his work in the theory of functions of a complex variable, Riemann surfaces, and conformal and quasi-conformal mappings. He is author of 'Complex Analysis" and co-author (with L. Sario) of "Riemann Surfaces...
...spoor of Esoterica hangs over the afternoon courses. Math. 224, for example, dallies over "Topics in the Theory of Compact Riemann Surfaces"; while Portuguese 200 elucidates Portuguese linguistics, and includes a survey of Portuguese literature up to 1500. At hours to be arranged Akkadian 230 will dwell on elementary Akkadian. Indian Studies 122a will exhume elementary classical Tibetan...
...postulated. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The theory of relativity is probably the greatest synthetic achievement of the human intellect up to the present time. It sums up the mathematical and physical labors of more than 2,000 years. Pure geometry, from Pythagoras to Riemann, the dynamics and astronomy of Galileo and Newton, the theory of electro-magnetism as it resulted from the researches of Faraday, Maxwell and their successors-all are absorbed, with the necessary modifications, in the theories of Einstein...
...Harvard's Dr. Donald H. Menzel. Taken through a special telescope at Climax, Colo., the pictures showed enormous filaments of luminous gas spurting out into space (see cut). One subject looked tough, even to the A.A.A.S. In a secluded auditorium the mathematicians, happily browsing among stochastics and open Riemann surfaces, were cornered by reporters who wanted to know the exact meaning of Einstein's Super-relativity (TIME, Jan. 2). The mathematicians queried took to cover...