From the January 9, 1937, issue

HARVARD MATHEMATICIAN MADE PRESIDENT OF A.A.A.S.

Offhand you might not expect a great mathematician to be interested in why it is that men throughout countless ages have taken joy in looking on the moon, a shapely tree, a pearl, or the rhythmical curves of a woman’s form.

Yet Dr, George D. Birkhoff, Harvard mathematician, who was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year, has made the mathematical measure of art one of his main branches of research.