Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of North Carolina's Archibald Henderson, 70, genial mathematician, historian of the South, drama critic, biographer, friend of Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw. Henderson bought ink by the quart for his own use, once turned out five books in one year ("When I get tired, I just go from one to another"). His advice to students: "The university offers you, not education, but only the pursuit of education-forever and ever...
Rector Karel Englis, internationally famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...
...student asked the late great Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead: "What's more important, ideas or things'?" Said Whitehead: "Why, I should imagine ideas about things." Deeply imbedded in U.S. education is a contrary attitude: ideas are not trustworthy; facts, especially "all the facts," are. Have the hairy-chested factual gourmands who think they want all the facts ever faced a real plateful of them...
Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer...
Otto Yulevich Shmidt is a bearded Soviet academician, mathematician and Polar explorer. At the age of 56 he is also a man of remarkable longevity...