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This cerebral formula turned out to be a recipe for irresistible eye candy. Draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, and you end up with a dynamic pattern of vector formations. A great LeWitt wall drawing may start like an algebra lesson, but it ends like a Renaissance fresco. Now you can see 105 of his drawings unfold themselves gorgeously across three floors of Mass MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, in North Adams, Mass. In a very unusual arrangement, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" will remain on view there for at least 25 years. In effect...
Your brain is going to sweep and swell into all sorts of new directions and dimensions. It will encounter Ambiguity. Ambivalence. Algebra. Your body is about to be taken over by aliens, behave in ways you can't control, grow in ways you can't contain. At times your feet will seem nowhere near the ground. I fell down the stairs a lot in middle school. Basic coordination was often beyond me. Confusion is part of the curriculum...
...teach at 1 [p.m.],” said Samit Dasgupta, an assistant professor of mathematics, who co-teaches Mathematics 21b: " Linear Algebra and Differential Equations." “I don’t know if class is canceled...
...personal anecdotes are at once amusingly self-deprecating and annoyingly self-aggrandizing. And call me a prude, but when Leitch writes of Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds that “their back looks like your face did when all you could think of was your algebra teacher while masturbating into a sock. (And by ‘when’ I mean ‘Tuesday.’)” I can’t help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print...
...scores of all time in the latter game—though he said he does not play as frequently now because it would be a “three-hour process.” Grosslight initially matriculated at Northwestern University, where he and his friends had “algebra parties” on weekends. He eventually transferred to and graduated from Stanford University. After a year at Berkeley studying history as a graduate student, he came to Harvard’s History of Science department. All the while, he has been kept company by a series of stuffed animal...