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...year contract venereal diseases. Since few parents are at ease discussing the subject with their sons and daughters, schools face little opposition when they try to add sexual education to their curricu lum. And the students themselves insist that they want the instruction. "I doubt that I will use algebra when I grow up, but I'll probably be married," says a Berkeley, Calif., high school senior...
Zariski, who came to Harvard in 1947 after a year and a half at the University of Illinois and 18 years at Johns Hopkins University, has spent his career applying the principles of modern algebra to the study of algebraic geometry...
...Algebraic geometry enables mathematicians to describe the properties of sets of points in any number of dimensions with algebraic equations. Zariski commented that mathematicians disagree over whether algebraic geometry is the study of geometry using algebraic methods or algebra in geometric form...
...Other parents point out that in order to hide the hole, most of the girls wear their earrings all the time, even when they look ridiculous. Comments the headmistress of a boarding school in Lake Forest, Ill.: "Earrings are fine for parties and dates, but not for bending over algebra...
...three professors of Mathematics are Raoul Bott, whose specialty is topology; Andrew M. Gleason, an expert in everything from algebra to analysis; and John T. Tate, algebra...