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...line is that you can't simultaneously be thinking about your tax return and reading an essay, just as you can't talk to yourself about two things at once," he says. "If a teenager is trying to have a conversation on an e-mail chat line while doing algebra, she'll suffer a decrease in efficiency, compared to if she just thought about algebra until she was done. People may think otherwise, but it's a myth. With such complicated tasks [you] will never, ever be able to overcome the inherent limitations in the brain for processing information during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Multitasking Generation | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...future, what are the skills that are going to be the most important for those kids? Is it going to be mastering new interfaces and keeping complex virtual relationships alive and multitasking and managing to think about new technologies in interesting ways? Or is it going to be algebra skills? I think you'd have to make the case that it's probably the former, not the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Around The Corner | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...while Mathematics 25b, “Honors Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra,” is the hardest spring semester course, according to the site, it might not be “love’s labours lost”: The class also ranks as the best among those with over 15 students...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Undergrad Website Ranks Courses | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

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?...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alumni Watch: Hugh M. Wolff '75 | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead Of Their Time | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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