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Just before war broke, Military Expert Liddell Hart published The Defence of Britain, postulating his theorem that in modern warfare, "defense is the best attack." A 3-to-1 superiority in mechanized weapon power is necessary for victory on the attack, and such superiority would be almost impossible to amass in a war between great powers. Many an ardent soldier criticized this thesis. "It was," as its author says, "an offense to their offensive spirit...
...upheaval in Germany. The latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...
...theorem that "the camera cannot lie" is one banality which no self-respect-ing photographer ever repeats. Unless a camera is skilfully used it can produce mechanical lies on the negative, and in many kinds of light or shadow even expert photographers do not yet know how to reproduce what they see. Under the best technical circumstances, moreover, a photograph tells precisely that fraction of truth allowed by the camera's brief interval of exposure and limited field of vision. This fraction may be very slight or very great, depending on the photographer's luck, care and awareness...
...reduce complicated wind motions to a series of simple, understandable oscillations. Thus mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric...
...still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...