Word: algebraical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric-lit caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
...staff to General Eisenhower, received a letter from Miss Arda Knox, his old high-school mathematics teacher, who wrote: "I don't suppose you will even remember me. When I saw your picture in TIME (Jan. 1), I could see that little . . black head down over your algebra book." Beedle answered: "I am glad to say, in case you remember my long succession of 'Cs,' that I have a lot of very able young engineers. . . . To me you were always the one bright spot in the mathematics landscape...
Students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last night took the first of four Tests of General Educational Development prepared by the Armed Forces Institute. Over 350 men have enrolled for the English, Social Studies, Natural Sciences, and Literature examinations. Tests in Plane Trigonometry, College Algebra, and Analytic Geometry previously announced, are not available and will not be given...
...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...
...Mathematician. The Liebers, who teach mathematics at New York's Long Island University, have a fine time explaining elementary things about Boolian algebra, non-Euclidean geometry and the fourth dimension. The reader is likely to share their gusto, even if he can not agree that "science and mathematics . . . can be a veritable defense against ALL evil...