Word: geometrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hironaka, an algebraic geometrist, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960. He has taught at Brandeis University and done research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Since 1949 he has been a professor at Columbia University...
Nothing to Chance. For all his discipline, Poussin was in no sense a stony prude or a bloodless geometrist. He reveled in depicting bacchanalia where swarthy satyrs lurched after alabaster-skinned nymphs, and chubby putti chugged wine as if it were rosy Pablum -all composed as carefully as a ballet. In his Rape of the Sabine Women (see opposite page), swords and outflung arms set up triangles that play a counterpoint against the squarish architecture. Nothing is left to chance, not even the suggestive but studied pas de deux of the Sabine maidens and their Roman abductors...