Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Math 55 covers the content of Math 21 with maximal generality and rigor," he says. "It is comparable to a graduate course. The types of assumptions it makes about students are more akin to graduate level than 100-level courses, which you can walk in on with no background on the material...
Etingof defends the necessity of Math 55, whichhe says helps structure the knowledge that manystudents come to Harvard with. According toEtingof, about 20 to 25 students enter with somuch mathematical background that they do not needto take the courses offered at the intermediate orlower levels...
...person has had enough background so thathe or she can reasonably take Math 55, then he orshe can take upper-level math classes, or evengraduate classes," he says." There is no reasonfor there to be a freshman math class that coverswhat 55 does...
...totally depends on background," he says."It's ironic that the people who get the most outof it have had the most experience...
...bound to silence by military discipline, says Beyer. Israeli voting patterns reflect a fierce divide between Israelis of European origin and those who immigrated from Arab countries. ?Right now there?s little indication that Shahak will be able to bridge that divide,? says Beyer. After all, a military background is the rule rather than the exception among Israel?s leaders...