Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nowhere is this more apparent than in the situation of Moslem women. Islam makes woman equal with man, with the same rights and the same duties. It gives her the right to choose her husband, and if it allows polygamy, it submits it to severe restrictive conditions which are difficult to fulfill...
...well after many times round the earth. One Russian scientist, Professor A. A. Blagonravov, said in Moscow that Little Curly is safe, hinting that means had been provided to bring her back to earth for a second appearance on the Moscow radio. Although not impossible, this would be exceedingly difficult, and official Russian sources have made no such promise. But even if she lives for only a short time, her experiences may help keep the first human space voyagers alive...
There is, obviously, no formal "program of education." The seminars generally arise from the interests of a group of members. Some seminars, especially in the School of Mathematics, meet each week to discuss what is, in the words of Oppenheimer, "new and difficult in the field." Other seminars discuss "older material, material which may range back one or two years." At the present time, astrophysicist Bengt Stromgren, newly arrived at the Institute, is giving a series of lecture-seminars on his special field of interest...
Certainly this has been done in mathematics. Modern mathematics is highly complex, extremely difficult and abstract. Also, as an Institute report says, "It is self-contained, self-sustaining, and almost self-generative." A small body of professors, combined with a relatively small group of students, or members, can create a community of mutual discussion and consultation in which the entire field comes under surveillance. The Institute claims with almost complete justification, "A mathematician may come to the Institute and be quite confident that he can find out anything really important in current work in the field...
Essentially, though, the Institute for Advanced Study is alone in its position of educational granduer. It is a community where the member teaches the professor as well as where the professor teaches the member. It is interested only in the most advanced and difficult areas of learning. It has no laboratories and formal courses...