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Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker's dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of relativity. At Harvard's Tercentenary celebration in 1936, he showed how to bisect a "horn angle" (an angle formed by two curves tangent to each other), a problem which had stumped mathematicians for 2,000-odd years. His fun: talking to children...
This is the season for trisecting angles and other such exercises. This is how you do it: Construct an angle, any angle. Bisect it. At a point, any point, on the line of bisection, draw lines to sides of angle and perpendicular to bisector. You have now got a straight angle within the original angle. Using the point as center and length of equal perpendiculars as radius, describe a semi-circle upon the straight angle and within the original angle. Trisect the straight angle by trisecting the semi-circle. The points of trisection of the straight angle will also trisect...
...king of the Sword", "Believe in Me", and "What-ever It Is, I've Got It" are near-exceptions rendered with unction by Walter Woolf, Helen Gilliland and Lupino. The book is an in-and outer. A line drawn from the best of the gags--"Familiarity breeds attempt"--would bisect a line from the worst, which is something about horse and hoarse, somewhere near "Do you believe in the hereafter?.... Well,that's what I'm here after...
...They bisect each other...
...rather novel idea contained in the plans is that which proposes the closing of certain streets which bisect college grounds. In this manner it would be possible for the University to gain a good deal of much needed territory, and at the same time, a good part of the perpetual traffic which now tears around and through the University grounds would be eliminated. This arrangement would close Quincy Street. Divinity Avenue, Frisbie Place, and Oxford, Jarvis, and Everett Streets...