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...nine-by-nine-square grid, broken into three-by-three-square cells. The object: fill each square with a number from 1 to 9 so that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle books in the 1970s under the scintillating title Number Puzzle. The Western craze didn't take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used the Japanese name to pitch his puzzle-generating program to the London Times. Sudoku...
...site, part of the “Harvard At Home” initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article...
Elkies’ paper examined a series of numbers discovered by influential 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler...
...Suisse has had to inject an extra €.5 billion in capital this year. Mack says much hard work has already been done. The unit has altered its asset mix - reducing its equity expo-sure and putting more money into bonds and cash. Credit Suisse also last week appointed Leonhard Fischer to head Winterthur. Does Fischer - who ran investment banking at Germany's Dresdner Bank - have the right background to run an insurance firm? Says Mack: "We have a lot of insurance experts. What we need are risk-management experts." Next, CSFB needs an overhaul. By year...
...wish that Derek Taylor had been the frequent guest at my parents? dinner table. He was so much smarter and so less prejudiced than Dr. Prinz. On the other hand, the immense pleasure I still derive from the Beatles is enhanced every time I think of Dr. Leonhard Prinz and his stunningly inaccurate prediction...