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...large cast, Timothy Cogan and Leonard Herzog are the most amusing. Jay Shuchter's stage direction makes effective use of military absurdities, and Michael Biddle has constructed an attractive set. The operas are under the fine musical supervision of Paul Sperry, who has been fortunate in getting Richard Friedberg as the accompanist. Too much studying is bad for the health...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Two Comic Operas | 5/18/1956 | See Source »

...made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg were superb...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Ruddigore | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

...contains just those integers whose squares are in Set B, it can be considered recursive in B. A recursively enumerable set is one which can be produced by a specific method, e.g., by squaring any integer to infinity, but which may or may not be recursive. Friedberg's problem was to find a recursively enumerable set which is not recursive, but in which some other recursively enumerable set is also not recursive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...sets Friedberg was after had to possess an infinite number of distinct properties. But in the construction of the sets, the assigning of one property often interfered with the assigning of another. Friedberg overcame the difficulty by arranging the properties in a priority list and resolving all interferences in favor of the properties standing higher on the list. After four months, he found the two sets he was looking for. Though laymen could hardly be expected to appreciate the virtues of his solution, his seniors in the field were dazzled. One professor at the University of California asked to include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Friedberg was not the only student that Harvard was boasting about. There was also Sophomore French Anderson, 18, who as a student at the Tulsa, Okla. Central High School produced the first theory of how an ancient Roman did his multiplying, dividing and square-rooting with Roman numerals. Says Anderson, "It's really pretty easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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