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...Greene??s prodigious talents as a scientist were evident at as early an age as five, when he used to multiply 30-digit by 30-digit numbers on large pieces of construction paper he would tape together. After exhausting all of the textbooks and resources at his junior high school, Greene remembers walking door to door at Columbia University with a note from his sixth grade teacher asking someone to challenge the gifted boy. Finally, he was apprenticed to a graduate student in mathematics and continued to study with him throughout high school...
Greene seems to leave a lasting impression on anyone he meets. Former schoolmate and current Boston native Dr. Paul Ketro, who stopped by to see Greene??s talk Wednesday night at the Brattle Theatre, laughs as he recalls his old friend constantly practicing judo, a Japanese martial art, and proving he could do a thousand sit-ups during the lunch period in third grade...
...theatre. If he weren’t a physicist, he says his dream would be to perform music, though he’s not convinced he’s very good at it. Such a predisposition towards the performing arts may have taken root because of the influence of Greene??s composer father. While at Oxford, Greene participated in improvisational theater, and later at Cornell, he acted in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” which coincidently proceeds backwards through time...
...doubt cleared, Wilcox smiles in Greene??s direction...
Wilcox says she remembers Greene??s postings—sexy and philosophical. Greene insists she’s confusing him with someone else...