Word: develin
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Course assistant Michael L. Develin '00 called the textbook "very bad." "The course would have been better with just about any other textbook, or maybe with no text at all," he says. "One of the major problems was that the book was no longer coordinated with the aims of the course...
...sorry for any misunderstanding this may have caused, and encourage Mullin to take the Putnam next year. MIKE L. DEVELIN '00 April...
Michael L. Develin's comment regarding the Putnam Math Contest (News, Apr. 9) makes me ashamed to be a Harvard student. Develin's condescending attitude toward the "pathetic" competitors in the competition promotes the stereotype of the arrogant Harvard student. How can he suggest that "anyone interested in math should take the Putnam" when he degrades those not on his level of achievement? STACEY J. MULLIN '00 April...
...Math competitions] are fun. They're fun to take," said Putnam Fellow Michael L. Develin '00. "There are all these pathetic people who took math exams in high school [such as the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) and want to relive those glory days...
...particular, Develin says the Putnam presentsproblems on introductory material, includingcalculus and group theory, as well as"self-contained questions" on "the body ofmathematical lore commonly discussed inmathematics clubs or in courses with such titlesas 'survey of the foundations of mathematics...