Word: theorem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lamp to help his offspring tackle his homework finds that he has attempted more than he can handle. Published last week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...
Hoover took up the theorem most recently enunciated by the Brookings Institute in Washington-that the trouble with Capitalism is capitalists...
Numbers. Last week's discussions were mainly mathematical and astronomical. Mathematics is the purest of pure sciences, because its devotees may juggle their symbols without regard to reality. But: "It may happen that the mathematician will pass on a theorem to the physicist, who uses it and passes it on to the chemist, who in turn uses it and passes it on to the biologist. Ultimately, the cure of a disease may result. . . . Sir Isaac Newton to a large extent worked on calculus to explain some phases of astronomy, but his findings now-more than 250 years later...
...Well," drawled Publicist Bernays, "there are two other young men here and we were just discussing the binomial theorem. It's a beautiful...
...instructor in mathematics, philosophy, ordnance &; gunnery. Truly he might have said looking about for something to do after he retires from the active list and the superintendency this week: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical; I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical; about binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o'news-with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!" * He has also a pretty knowledge of astronomy, and chemistry he knows but does not care for. Many offers came in. Last week this Modern Major General made his choice...