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...worked on neighboring estates, came to the church in tearful anger. A landlord, annoyed by one of his farmhand tenants, had refused to pay any of them for their work that week. The priest, whose life until then had been the unharried existence of a Catholic school teacher of algebra, Latin and Greek, was shocked. "Is weeping all you propose to do?" he roared at his parishioners. "Let's teach that man a lesson." He there upon organized a torchlight parade that marched round and round the landlord's house. The landlord paid the wages, but he called...
...small but heartbreaking first novel, The Weather of the Heart (TIME, June 2, 1947), a tragedy of teen-age lovers which proved absolute authority in that difficult literary place, the world of childhood. She is back in that world again, with the additional passport of one who taught algebra to the blind after leaving college. That the problems she sensed were deeper than those she put to her students is clearly evident in The Fourth World, a world as eerie and haunting as any that this year's crop of fiction is apt to produce...
...effort to make learning seem as much fun as dancing or basketball. When that fails, they add more and more practical courses. But chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality...
Wang added that "it may help prove the unsolvability of certain decision problems in fields of ordinary mathematics such as topology, algebra, and theory of numbers. While the full implications of this solution for mathematics are difficult to evaluate, I do not hesitate to consider it a remarkable discovery...
...Groove Over. As Author Hogben approaches modern times, he takes his readers painlessly through the discoveries of Galileo and Newton, through Descartes to Karl Gauss. Just as painlessly, he introduces them to algebra, the laws of acceleration, the concepts of mass and weight, binary numbers, and the graph plottings of the parabola and the ellipse. But his major accomplishment will be to give his readers the notion of mathematics as a major part of their heritage...