Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, Sir James has taken it upon himself to preach the Gospel abroad, to explain the groundwork of theory which makes the work of Dirac and his peers possible. Last week appeared the newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe. Sir James has made his story so simple that laymen can digest it without difficulty, so authoritative that no scientist will quarrel with his premises...
...fundamental ways of looking at the future of business: 1) it is all a matter of chance; 2) what has happened is apt to recur. Economist Irving Fisher of Yale, an advocate of prophecy in business, contends that prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also obeyed the laws of chance...
Sued for Divorce. Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell, mathematician, philosopher; by his second wife, Dora Winifred. Countess Russell; in London...
Since nature conforms to intricate mathematical equations, Sir James sees its Creator as a pure mathematician. Since mathematical equations are only collections of symbols, Sir Arthur denies the ability of science to provide any but a symbolic or partial knowledge of reality, argues for a sort of intimate knowledge by which human consciousness, a phenomenon outside science's domain, senses the unseen world of significances, values...
FAMED in the scientific world as one of the few men, if not the only man, who could understand the intricate mathematics of Harvard's most famous higher mathematician, Benjamin Pierce, Thomas Hill is equally famed in the educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this...