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...Imagining Numbers,” his 2002 book, he hopes to explain such mind-bogglers to scholars outside the TI-83 set. Mazur’s book, with the parenthetical subtitle “Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen,” started as a letter explaining imaginary numbers to Michel Chaouli, a professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University. Chaouli praised Mazur extensively in an e-mail, calling him “the most remarkable thinker I have ever met.” Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who teaches Quantitative Reasoning...
...strait a weighAs soon as a mist ache is maid It shoes before two long And eye can put the error write It’s rare lea ever wrongEye have run this poem threw it I’m shore your please to no It’s letter perfect all the weigh My chequer towed me sew-Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past...
...letter written to Donald R. Knauss, president of Coca-Cola North America, the university’s Executive Vice President and CFO Timothy P. Slottow cited Coke’s cooperation with independent investigations by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) as vital to Michigan’s decision...
...Pathological gambling involves showing five or more of the signs, according to the Health Letter...
...Health Letter says that treatment for compulsive gambling resembles that for substance abuse—focusing on therapy. Representatives from the Bureau of Study Counsel and Harvard’s Mental Health Services attended a conference to learn more about strategies for addressing pathological gambling among students, according to McLoughlin...