Word: veblen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton's Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto...
Under the provisions of the gift, Professor Veblen will devote most of his time to creative research, but he will also deliver a series of pictures for graduate students...
...first incumbent of the Henry Burchard Fine Chair of Mathematics at Princeton has been appointed in the person of Professor Oswald Veblen, a graduate of the College in the class...
Professor Veblen, an authority in projective geometry has been a member of the Princeton Faculty since 1905 and a full professor since 1910. In addition Professor Vebler is a member of the Board of Trustees of the recently organized National Academy Foundation of Research of which Secretary Hoover is Chairman...