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...eleven problems posed by President Arnold Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early to have tea, rest their minds, study. Next day-a hot day -they moiled over discontinuous functions, convergent series, polar coordinates, second derivations. The finished papers were turned over to Professor Dresden at Swarthmore College. He was to announce results in ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brain Game | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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