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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Herr Krieger made headlines once more by announcing that he would reveal the values for x, y and z which would solve the Fermat equation. They turned out to be 1,324; 731; and 1,961. He would not reveal n-the power-but said it was less than 20. An astute reporter from the New York Times, no baby in mathematics himself, pored over this equation: 1,324 n +731 n =1,961 n . The reporter saw that the first number raised to any power at all would end in either 6 or 4, the second raised...
...crime and parlor games. As author, he wrote books about dogs, the theatre, Irving Berlin, Mrs. Fiske (his stage idol), Dickens (his literary idol), achieved a best-seller with While Rome Burns. As editor, he compiled The Woollcott Reader and Woollcott's Second Reader, 1,100 pages which reveal Woollcott's chief reasons for reading: a good laugh or a good cry. As Town Crier, on the radio, he charmed with his anecdotes, pumped books he liked, made best-sellers of such works as James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Alexander Woollcott's While Rome Burns...
...autobiographical essays from the manuscripts in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection in the Treasure Room form the text of the book. These interesting notes jotted down in odd moments by this 19th century artist and decorator reveal his background and how he started on his career...
Frank Reel '26, Progressive candidate for the Cambridge City Council, will reveal the inside workings of Massachusetts politics in a talk tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Reel is a labor lawyer and will give the progressive point of view in the political setup...
Most of the journalists are choosing economics for their field of study, a complication of the choices on the applications reveal. This result was predicted in a poll taken by a large New York newspaper of its staff members. Twenty-four of them chose economics; History; one, English literature; one, three, English composition; two, U. s. history; one, English Literature; one Spanish; one, zoology; one, mathematics; one, business management; one, ethics...