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Attention, first-years—-There is yet another reason to stay as far away as possible from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn?...
...Arab empire stretched from India to Spain and caliphs, like Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, set up centers of learning that attracted the best minds of the age. In Baghdad, around 825, Al-Khwarizmi wrote a mathematical treatise that for the first time used the word al-jabr - algebra - to describe the process of solving equations. Three Baghdad brothers produced pioneering works in mechanical engineering. In Cordoba, under princely patronage, the 12th century thinker Ibn Rushd, also known by the medieval Latin name Averroës, reconciled Islamic religion and Aristotelian philosophy in ways that would influence the European Renaissance...
...Pamela" would like you to know that she loves art. That she would have got honors at her graduation from Marlborough High School in Marlborough, Mass., last month, except for a slip on her Algebra II final. That she would go to the Massachusetts College of Art this fall, but her restaurant-worker parents can't pay the nearly $18,000 tuition. And that the tuition would cost just $6,400 if state legislators approved a bill to allow students like her, an illegal immigrant, to pay in-state rates at Massachusetts' public colleges and universities...
...Lane was most famous for the ground-breaking paper he co-wrote with Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia in 1945 which introduced category theory, a framework to show how mathematical structures relate to each other. This branch of algebra has since influenced most mathematical fields and also has functions in philosophy and linguistics, but was first dismissed by many practical mathematicians as too abstract to be useful...
According to Mathematics Department Chair and Higgins Professor of Mathematics Joseph D. Harris, Chen is teaching Gross’ class, Mathematics 123, “Abstract Algebra II: Theory of Rings and Fields,” in the interim...