Harold Marston Morse: A mathematician in the first world war (Q2717436)

The reader of the French Claude Debru on the American Harold Marston Morse will quickly understand that the mathematician and piano player to whom these pages have been dedicated was a person full of light, good sense and kindness. One can even feel him looking on his shoulder to see what one is actually writing about him. His bright image is quite here, can you see it? NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe American mathematician participated in the first world war and struggled against Germany in France. Over the whole period, he wrote impressive letters to his mother. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEBack in the States, after the war, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study, where he met John von Neumann, Albert Einstein, Oppenheimer, Weyl, and many others. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEA declared follower of Henri Poincaré, he established special collaborations with his French colleagues (do not forget he loved Debussy), and used to invite them to the American Institue. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEA great mathematician, and even a greater man, I think.