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...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...
...necklace for eternal life, survives. Only in the second act does Mrs. Moonlight seem anything like plausible. The supporting characters generally seem as puzzled as the audience about the proper attitude to be taken toward the portent they are witnessing. But the play again proves the dramatic theorem that if you want to make any audience blow its nose and wipe its eyes, have the principals sing the same songs and say the same lines in the last act as they have previously sung and said in their youth-way back in Act I. Nine Till Six is dubiously distinguished...
...asymptote, and strives in vain; and I believe that if the geometrician were to be conscious of his hopeless and desperate striving ... he would represent the hyperbole to us as a living being and a tragic one. I believe in the tragedy (in the romance) of the binomial theorem (I am not so sure that Newton saw it)." The novels (short stories) in this book are not exemplary in the conventional moral sense, but examples of tragic human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older...
...admirers of his trenchant critical pen in his old New Age days. One of the high spots of his editorship of that weekly was the sponsoring and of the the forcing Douglas "Social Credit Movement" and the forcing into spectacular journalistic combat of the famous economic " A plus B" Theorem. This latter declares that the total purchasing power of the community only secured by way of wages, salaries and dividends, is, under the present cost-accounting system, insufficient to buy back the total products of industry...