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...from the Navy in November, presidential aspirant Stassen has made more than 100 speeches in 21 states and the District of Columbia, from the Lumbermen's Convention in New York to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in San Angelo, Tex., from Harvard's Godkin lectures to tiny Principia College in Elsah, Ill., before veterans, Rotarians, Kiwanians, the FBI. At fees ranging from nothing to $1,000, a conservative estimate of his gross...
Professor Whitehead, who retired in 1937, taught at Cambridge University and the University of London before his appointment at Harvard. He has done considerable work with Albert Einstein in the mathematical field and is the author of "Principia Mathematica" and "The Principle of Relativity...
...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...
...based on deep bio-social necessity determines the pattern by which people settle in towns of different sizes. Such is the simple conclusion-with arresting implications-of Lecturer George Kingsley Zipf of Harvard, who analyzes the mathematics of population distribution in his new book, National Unity and Disunity (Principia Press...
...University as any teacher who has graced the Yard in all its three hundred years, but his fame doesn't rest on teaching alone. He has the rare combination of teaching ability and creative genius. The tradition of his Phil 3 may last as long as Harvard, but his "Principia Mathematic" and his "Process and Reason" will last as long as thought. His work in the correlation of science and philosophy have earned him a position among the greatest thinkers of our time. We wish him a happy birthday and many more like...