Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corona-haired Scientist Albert Einstein looks more like a concert violinist than most concert violinists do. To many a ruthless young mathematician, fiddling is the best thing Oldster Einstein does nowadays. In any event, he fiddles well enough to be heard in public. One sleety afternoon last week he made one of his rare semi-public concert appearances, in his adopted town, Princeton, N. J. Two things prompted gentle Dr. Einstein to brave reporters and photographers: he thought most of his audience would be children, whom he likes; the occasion was a benefit for the American Friends Service Committee...
Internationally known as a mathematician and recognized as one of three foremost differential geometers in the country, Professor Graustein was also Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Department of Mathematics...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, German-born mathematician, world's chess champion from 1894 to 1921, author (The Philosophy of the Unattainable, Cosmos Under the Aspect of Comprehension); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan...
...calculates Cornell Mathematician J. B. Rosser...
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...