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...probably wouldn’t find Professor of Mathematics Barry C. Mazur’s paper on the computation of p-adic heights and log convergence at, say, the Barker Center. But if he were to get his way, Mazur wouldn’t mind if English concentrators could at least understand the first few pages. The Gade University Prof explains that if you ask mathematicians to “talk about a 10-D space and visualize it,” it wouldn’t be a problem. But in “Imagining Numbers...

Author: By Paris A. Spies-gans, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beauty is Math, and Math Beauty | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...Kingdom” is Thomas’ second novel, and, as in his debut, “Some Danger Involved,” it features the crime-fighting duo of Victorian “private enquiry agent” Cyrus Barker and his young assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Adventure of the Irish Terrorists | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...light of these findings, and in accordance with a desire not to compete with the nearby Barker Center cafe, the position paper recommends opening the Lamont coffee shop from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday to Thursday nights, 3 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. on Friday, and 5 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. on Saturday night...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Survey Shows Students Want “Harvard-esque” Late Night Coffee Shop in Lamont Library | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...strength of their academic accomplishments. The space crunch in Cambridge may be limiting our ability to build a student center pre-Allston, but that’s in part due to the fact the Library Administration has been promised 90 Mt. Auburn, FAS has set up camp in the Barker Center, and the Radcliffe Institute holds the rights to Radcliffe Yard...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright | Title: Bread and Circuses | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

Compared to the open atrium and plush conference rooms of, say, the Barker Center (where some NELC professors have attic offices), NELC’s space appears shabby and decrepit. And like its physical surroundings, the department itself could use an upgrade...

Author: By Giuliana Vetrano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Strings Attached? | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

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