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Taking as his theme "Significant Changes in the World in the Past Sixty Years" or "Some Difficulties in Growing Old," Bertrand Russell, noted philospher and mathematician, last night told a large gathering in the Eliot House dining room that the main difference between the world of 1940 and the 19th century is the decay of security in Europe...
Apart from his household, alone at the mahogany table in the family dining room, sat the master mathematician...
Alfred North Whitehead, world reknowned philosopher and mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, will give the annual Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man at the Divinity School next April, it was announced yesterday...
...riddle of the bear is one of the tidbits in Mathematics and the Imagination* by Professor Edward Kasner, a distinguished but whimsical mathematician of Columbia University, and James Newman, a Manhattan lawyer who once was Kasner's pupil. Mathematics is one of the hardest of all sciences to popularize, and the Kasner-Newman book is remarkably successful-perhaps because Dr. Kasner has had a lot of practice talking about mathematics to children. He is the man who gave the world the "googol" and the "googolplex" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). The googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros...
...When the mathematician Leibniz started to explain the mathematics of the infinitely small to Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, she said she already understood it from watching the behavior of her courtiers...