Word: intuitionism
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The theory was one of history's most imaginative and dramatic revisions of our concepts about the universe. It was, said Paul Dirac, the Nobel laureate pioneer of quantum mechanics, "probably the greatest scientific discovery ever made." Max Born, another giant of 20th century physics, called it "the greatest feat...
By JIM VON DER HEYDTThrough these last few years of transition at Harvard, a corrosive notion has been seeping into the groundwater: the idea that a “global university” should focus relatively less of its intellectual energy on the United States. To those who consider this...
DERBY, CONN.—If only the course had been 100 meters longer, the start a little crisper, or the first 1,000 meters more aggressive.The if-onlys abound, but they won’t do much to bring the Goldthwait Cup back to Cambridge for the fourth consecutive...
My intuition tells me that logistical challenges arising from the overwhelming distance to the Quad and to Allston would cause the deans to defend their perch in the Yard. Yet if neither is good enough for our administrators, why should either be good enough for our student groups?
The topic of angels has always intrigued me, and not just because everyone from John Travolta to Warren Beatty has played them in movies, or that I simply can't forget when Clarence got his wings in It's a Wonderful Life. I like the idea that my nearest and...