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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...calculates Cornell Mathematician J. B. Rosser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking About Thinking | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL NOTES DECLINE IN WORLD SECURITY SINCE 1890 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Apart from his household, alone at the mahogany table in the family dining room, sat the master mathematician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Victory | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITEHEAD TO GIVE ANNUAL LECTURE ON IMMORTALITY | 10/3/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Number-Juggling | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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