Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...riddle of the bear is one of the tidbits in Mathematics and the Imagination* by Professor Edward Kasner, a distinguished but whimsical mathematician of Columbia University, and James Newman, a Manhattan lawyer who once was Kasner's pupil. Mathematics is one of the hardest of all sciences to popularize, and the Kasner-Newman book is remarkably successful-perhaps because Dr. Kasner has had a lot of practice talking about mathematics to children. He is the man who gave the world the "googol" and the "googolplex" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). The googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros...
...Reader Smith is entitled to believe his grandfather Joseph Smith. Many others believe Brigham Young, who declared when Mormon polygamy was openly proclaimed at Salt Lake City that Joseph Smith had 27 secret wives besides Emma. Critic Bernard DeVoto (son of a Notre Dame mathematician, a Mormon mother) admitted that Joseph Smith had only five "official" children by his "official" wife Emma...
Deportation proceedings may possibly be opened against Bentrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, according to a telegram sent from Washington, D.C. last night by Massachusetts Congressman John W. McCormick to Thomas Dorgan, legislative agent for the City of Boston...
...distinguished mathematician, who will deliver a series of lectures here next year, stated that "the principle of freedom of speech has been invoked not by the New York Board of Higher Education as their legal defense, but by many thousands of people throughout the United States who have perceived its obvious relation to the controversy...
...morals. The President and Fellows are merely upholding their right as an independent body to appoint men they believe are specially qualified for certain jobs. They point out that the William James Lectureship calls for "eminent scholars not connected with Harvard University." Dr. Russell, they add, is a "mathematician and philosopher of recognized eminence," and will lecture here on mathematics, logic, and language...