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Socially, the mathematicians and humanists mix well. Marston Morse, mathematician and a resident tutor at Eliot House until 1935, compared the collaboration favorably with that at Harvard. "Scientists and classicist mingle more here than we did in Cambridge," he said. "The ideal of the Institute is that scholars meet and teach each other on a plane of equality...
...such project, completed last year, is an electronic digital computing machine. Constructed in the Institute's only laboratory, the machine took an unestablished conjecture of 19th century mathematician E. E. Kummer, performed the 20,000,000 necessary multiplications, and after six hours, came up with the answer. The machine is part of an Institute project to forecast the weather accurately--perhaps two years in advance...
...charge of this project is John vou Neumann, an Hungarian mathematician who joined the Institute in 1933. Von Neumann is only one of the many members who have come to the Institute from Europe or Asia. This year an estimated one-half of the eighty-one members are from outside the U. S. The requirement of a Doctor's degree is waived in the case of Europeans if they have their country's approximate equivalent...
...Gambling." wrote Gerolamo Cardano, "ought to be discussed by a medical doctor like one of the incurable diseases." Cardano himself was just the man to do the job. One of the leading Italian physicians of the 16th century, he was an unsurpassed mathematician, and he suffered from an acute case of the disease...
...Unheroic Hero. The central figure of the novel is Ulrich, "the Man Without Qualities." An ex-cavalry officer, ex-civil engineer and ex-mathematician, Ulrich has chosen the role of aloof observer. Even as modern heroes go, Ulrich is spectacularly unheroic. In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile. Against his better judgment, he gets involved in a grandiose piece of foolishness known as "the Collateral Campaign," which is intended to honor the Emperor on his joth Jubilee. The moth-eaten dynastic symbols behind this campaign do not delude Ulrich...