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Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington...
Some years ago Edward Kasner, a whimsical Columbia University mathematician, coined the word "googol" as the name of a very large number: the number i followed by 100 zeros (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). Dr. Kasner made it clear that the googol, though useful in the recondite realm of probability mathematics, would never be needed in mundane affairs...
After graduation Einstein became a Swiss citizen, later married the Serbian mathematician, Mileva Marech, by whom he had two sons...
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...Constitution but closely tied to it) which would set up a complex form of proportional representation which seemed likely to favor the Communists; the electoral setup would emphasize parties rather than candidates-another help to the Communists, the best disciplined party. (Commenting on the voting system, famed French mathematician and Rightist Assemblyman Jacques Bardoux said: "I read these texts once without understanding them. I read them a second, then a third time, pencil in hand. It was in vain . . . so I finally consigned to the Devil this opus born of mating of Socialist and Communist thought...