"... I think Walther Mayer got a designation that has never been used for anyone else. He was the only associate professor the Institute has ever had. He was called "associate professor." Yes, and the reason was: Einstein wanted him very much. Clearly the mathematicians did not feel that he really should be a full-fledged faculty member. This was at an early stage, so they took a designation that was used in American universities. Only later did it occur to them to create a new thing called "permanent member.""
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Walther Mayer
(11 March 1887 – 10 September 1948) was a Jewish, Austrian mathematician, born in , . With he gained fame for originating the in topology. From 1929 until his death in 1948, Mayer mathematically assisted Albert Einstein. In 1933 Einstein moved to the United States and joined the (IAS). Mayer soon followed Einstein to the IAS and acquired the nickname "Einstein's calculator".
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