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...Putnam Mathematical Competition, open to college students in the U.S. and Canada, is a six-hour exam "constructed to test originality as well as technical competence," according to a release from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which administers the exam...
...students, Bjorn M. Poonen '89 and team member Douglas S. Jungreis '86, were among the five highest finishers in the competition. They were named Putnam Fellows and will receive awards of $500, according to the MAA...
...Maa-aa-aa-meee...
Author-Critic Lewis Mumford is a hard maa to please. As the nation's most critical sidewalk superintendent, he has long pointed out to modern "builders their mistakes in design and long-range planning. In his big, philosophizing books (The Condition of Man, The Culture of Cities, Technics and Civilization), he is just as ready to point out what he considers the mistakes of history. This week, in the first of a series of Columbia University lectures on art in the machine age, Critic Mumford leveled his sights on soth Century painting...
Using two columns of print and four languages (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and English), they announced defiantly: "That's right, Mahwah. Spelled M-A-H-W-A-H." What's more, they went on, Mahwah (from the Indian, Maa Eway -"meeting place") is a real-life township of 5,000 souls, about 25 miles from New York City. Many of the citizens commute to Manhattan every day, some work in a local plant of the American Brake Shoe Co., others grow apples and all of them have had enough from incredulous strangers. Said...