Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and the president of Princeton University in the early 20th century. Nasar notes that Wilson “despised mathematics”—which he regarded as a “mild form of torture”—and did not envision math playing an important role in academic life at Princeton, though the Princeton math community would later become one of the most well-respected in the world.
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Woodrow Wilson – Character Timeline in A Beautiful Mind
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Chapter 3 – The Center of the Universe
...are top-notch, though Princeton had not always had this reputation. In the early 1900s, when Woodrow Wilson was its president, Wilson’s best friend, mathematician Henry Burchard Fine—Fine Hall’s namesake—convinced him to hire...
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