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Ellen’s parents had her switch schools, but she never developed an interest in math and never took a math class in high school beyond Algebra...
...absence of available seats, late class shoppers overwhelmed Science Center 309 last Wednesday as they filled every unoccupied corner of the room. Students sat on the floor directly in front of the lecturer and on top of the radiator to hear the first lecture of Math 23a: Theoretical Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus...
...will be similar to the SAT II: Writing test and will include an essay question, the College Board announced last month. Analogies will be eliminated from test and replaced with critical reading passages from a variety of subjects, including science. The math section will include more advanced topics from Algebra II and quantitative comparison questions will be eliminated...
...well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive to its breakdown in everyday life, they often annoy friends by asking them to rephrase their questions more logically. --TIME, April...
...When a person says she wants to give up a powerful job to spend more time with her family, it is usually a laugh line. Few do so voluntarily, but Hughes' explanation rang true for reporters who had watched her try to tutor her son Robert, now 15, in algebra on the campaign plane or had tracked her down by cell phone in the bleachers at one of his baseball games. It was clear that the former Army brat was never comfortable with having hauled her family to Washington. When Condoleezza Rice woke her at 5:15 one morning...