Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House...
Thanks to the Press, a rotund little quizzical-faced German-Jewish mathematician is known as the greatest man in the world today. Everything he says and does is News. If you are a careful newspaper reader you will find nothing new in this little collection of speeches and scraps of interviews, but you will rediscover many a bookworthy phrase, sentence...
...Einstein has really been going to school in Pasadena. He has attended lectures about the galaxies by Dr. Gustaf Benjamin Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist-mathematician of Caltech, has been giving him lessons in astrophysics. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has promised to let him look through the Mt. Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured...
...retired, of San Francisco, onetime senior officer of the Mathematics Corps: "[Dr. Albert] Einstein is neither astronomer, mathematician, nor physicist...
...Other mathematicians have solved the problem but only more complicated instruments. Last in Boston, George Hurd, retired manufacturer, and Professor Harold A. Zager, Boston College mathematician, claimed that Descartes was wrong, that after ten years' study they had not only trisected but had divided arcs into other fractions with ruler & compass. They would not describe their method until it is righted...