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...Erwin Schrödinger, as his lecture title suggests, has also attempted to fit life into his equations, he has gone beyond the ambitions of any other mathematician. In that case, it is small wonder that he fascinates the imaginative Irish...
Although a fine mathematician, Birkoff in the first half of 5, goes at such a rapid pace that even the best men have a tough time keeping up with him. Widder in the second half, is very methodical and takes less for granted...
...good sense to let Bowditch's story tell itself with a minimum of literary asides and insights, the result is a simple, read able, well-researched life of a remarkable American-a kind of deepwater Benjamin Franklin who by grinding spare-time study made himself the outstanding U.S. mathematician and astronomer...
...teaching himself Latin for the purpose, he began his five-year study of Newton's Principia. In it he discovered an error. At 19 his brother-in-law gave him a copy of Euclid's Elements; Bowditch later concluded that Euclid was "a second-rate mathematician." To study French mathematicians, he taught himself French. His method was simple. He got a copy of the New Testament and a French dictionary. When he had translated the New Testament into French, he knew French (except its pronunciation...
...Government, Liberia's longtime President, short, scholarly-looking Edwin James Barclay, called the N.C.O.s of the 1,000-man Liberian Frontier Force into secret conclave. Next day, as Nazi leaflets fluttered in the streets, the N.C.O.s rounded up eleven men, including the ringleader, a fat, German-trained mathematician, Professor Massaquoi of Liberia College. Trumpeted President Barclay: "Am I a chicken? They were to move on me in the night, but I moved on them...