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...England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston. At 150 years, this is the nation's oldest society. Its 3,500-linear-foot manuscript collection stresses material from New England, Britain, Ireland and French Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Map Your Heritage | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...title of inventors of the modern computer--until an obscure physicist named John Atanasoff came forth to dispute their claims. In the late 1930s, while teaching at Iowa State College, he and a graduate student named Clifford Bell began building a device that would allow them to solve large linear algebraic equations. Their machine, later called ABC (for Atanasoff Berry Computer), incorporated a number of novel features, including the separation of data processing from memory, and relied on binary numbers instead of ENIAC's clumsier decimal arithmetic. But Atanasoff was called away in 1942 to work for the Navy. Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Built The First Computer? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...officials who ran Napoleon's kingdom in Italy, his fellow expatriate artists--with stylish brio and steely exactness. It is fascinating to see him shifting through different levels of notation--for example, between the subtle, continuous modeling of the face of Mrs. Charles Badham (1816) and the brisker, more linear treatment of her shawl and clothes, and the subtle ghost traces of Roman architecture behind her. Nobody understood this medium better than Ingres, and the show contains some of the most exquisite pencil drawings ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Faces of an Epoch | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Chen says he's "willing to give [math] another shot," and is taking Mathematics 21b, "Linear Algebra and Differential Calculus," this semester, while classmate Eiichi A. Miyasaka '02 says he still hopes to concentrate in mathematics...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...result, members of the Math Club have take en it upon themselves to design suggestedcurriculums for Math 22 and Mathematics 55,"Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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