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...That the English physicist, Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), and the German mathematician, Johann von Soldner, especially the latter, anticipated Einstein by 120 years in calculating the effect of gravitation on light rays and in deriving the formulas on which his work is based. Einstein never mentions von Soldner in his writings, and he even copies an error which von Soldner made in his formula, and which was exposed in recent years...
...cents. Although the volume of transactions in stocks decreased, prices were irregularly strong. Bonds in general turned downward under advancing money rates. In Germany the printing presses rendered colorless previous superlatives of financial writers by adding in the single week 450 billion new Reichsbank marks!! Some ingenious mathematician has computed that at this rate 1923 would see outstanding marks break into the quadrillions-an achievement beyond the power of even the Bolsheviki...
...would know how the conduct of business is ruled, and the principles of squaring, which, by the way, are quite different from what any mathematician would tell you, you must consult this guide. But, to quote the Advertisement with which it opens, it is a book for but a selected...
...Christine Ladd-Franklin renowned mathematician and student of the theories of color-vision, will lecture on the subject of "Color-Sensation," this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson A, at the request of the audience which heard her first talk on the same subject last Tuesday. 'Mrs. Franklin, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, is a lecturer at Columbia University. Her research in the science of color-vision has been probably the deepest and most thoroughgoing ever made. The lecture this afternoon will be illustrated by lantern slides
...James Russell Lowell, former professor of Belles Lettres and former Overseer of the University; Professor Sophocles, the celebrated and eccentric teacher of Greek; William Watson Goodwin, the scholar; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, who was for many years a professor at the University; Dean Shaler; Benjamin Pierce, the great mathematician; and others whose memory the University honors...