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...found their reward in discovering, and helping to build, an artistic League of Nations in their new land. Casablanca, the best-loved film of the 1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union and Sweden...
Nathaniel Weyl Boca Raton...
...better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach to the analysis of differential equations at the Institute...
...Research Associate in Physiology, Mrs. Hilda Weyl Sokol, will study fish endocrinology. Two poets, Mrs. Maxine W. Kumin and Mrs. Anne Sexton (who never attended college), will work at the Institute, in addition to painters Mrs. Lois Swirnoff and Mrs. Barbara Swan...
...hyper-brilliant physicists and mathematicians who read like a "Who's Who in Physics and Mathematics."' On its professional staff in recent years have been Armond Bore Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel, Deane Montgomery, Marston Morse, Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Oswald Veblen, John von Neuman, Bengt Stromgren, Hassler Whitney, Herman Weyl, and Yang...