Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...factories that run themselves and managers largely concerned with planning future factories. To manufacture thinkers, Carnegie essentially teaches patterns of behavior-how men act in organizations, the interaction of banking, money and markets with unions, politics and science. To arm themselves for high-level decisions, students study techniques from linear algebra to clinical psychology to computer programming. Along with other required courses, for example, they study "Ideas in the Changing Environment"-how society and business have interacted in important historical periods. First-semester required reading spans 17 books, from Darwin to Freud to Spengler...
...that is, to make "cunning" choices by a form of reasoning rather than computing answers by doggedly calculating all possible alternatives. Using Simon's methods, an M.I.T. researcher has computerized the numerous and subtle judgments required in trust investment. Carnegie claims credit for the first industrial application of linear programming, which has since been used for everything from oil refining to concocting dog food. Oth er research projects range from the psychology of insecure employees to the economics of the U.S. theater...
...paints the way he plays music: he tries to combine in the present moment all the root wisdom of past experience. "I believe that a great work of art is timeless," he says, and he learned his art by studying the paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, Sumerian tablets, and linear Egyptian murals. Prime examples are now on view at Manhattan's World House Galleries. To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood. Then he watches the painting...
...when he was absorbing surrealism from Joan Miro and Jean Arp. From them he learned the art of expressing the forms of living things in the context and materials of the machine age. As the stabiles' dimensions have grown more mammoth, so have their artistic strength and lean, linear elegance...
Math is not only vital in a day of computers, automation, games theory, quality control and linear programming; it is now also a liberal art, a logic for solving social as well as scientific problems. How much more of it Americans might have is suggested in the new Cambridge Report, a manifesto by 25 top U.S. math users and teachers who hammered it out at Harvard. To lift the national logic level and stamp out mathematical illiteracy, these experts argue that sixth-graders can and should attain a competence "well above that of the general population today." For high school...