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...teaching of mathematics is "ready for drastic alteration." Instead of the old prep-school curriculum of two years of algebra, one of plane geometry, and one of either trigonometry or solid geometry, schools should place more stress on broad mathematical principles. They should trim away some of the excess fat, condense such topics as complex numbers and logarithmic solutions of triangles in favor of the more enlightening study of calculus and statistics...
Pigs & Princesses. At the Thacher School, Thornton wrote a play called The Russian Princess-An Extravaganza!, covered his first-year algebra book with the tables of contents for imaginary books ("Quadratics in those days could be supported only with the help of a rich marginal commentary"). By that time, Mr. Wilder had decided that Thornton should spend his summers working on a farm. Thornton worked-after his fashion. He fed the pigs, dreamily pitched the hay, declaimed "to the cows in the stanchions the judge's speech from Barrie's The Legend of Leonora...
...example, honors students in Architectural Sciences are uniformly good in algebra and high in picture memory, meaning that the more aptitude you have in these operations the better you will do in these fields. These operations are termed predictive for Architectural Science...
...Brauer received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra given once every five years by the American Mathematical Society. He is also a past editor of the American Journal of Mathematics...
Weekend with Father (UniversaI-International) is put together with the simple precision of an equation in Algebra I. Van Heflin is a widower with two children (girls) and a dog. Patricia Neal is a widow with two children (boys) and a dog. Widower meets widow in Grand Central Terminal while seeing the children off to summer camps. Result: a swift courtship and a drive up to Maine to break the news of the engagement to the kids...