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...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 28, “The Magic of Numbers,” with Mazur, has seen his colleague’s teaching ability first hand. Elkies says that it is Mazur’s “wide and sympathetic erudition” that makes him “particularly good at” reaching students outside...
...morning Sarah went to the school office to discuss getting back on track but got a surprise. One of the administrators asked her point-blank, "Why don't you just quit school?" "I was just a kid," says Sarah with a laugh. "It was like they said the magic words. So I told them, 'O.K.!' And I left...
...mathematician. That’s my palette,” he says. He possesses degrees in computer science and math from Brown University to back up that claim.For a long time, he used this palette to write CGI programs for George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic special-effects team, allowing them to add color and texture to the models they made (a brontosaurus would look pretty fake without its scales). His tools were used in movies like “Starship Troopers” and “Jurassic Park,” and won him two Academy...
...Sign.” There have been some high points since then: “Diamonds and Pearls,” “The Love Symbol Album,” and his previous outing, “Musicology,” all evidenced some of the old magic. And the music press heralded each of them as a “return to form,” but those in the know admit that they came up short of greatness. Prince’s most recent release, the enigmatically titled “3121,” is also...
...focus group looks like story time at a preschool. In one recent New York City session, four 4- and 5-year-olds heard a story from a future episode of the cable network's hit show Go, Diego, Go!, in which a boy enlists a falcon to recover a magic flute. "The snake sings, 'Yuka, yuka, yik yik ...'" the storyteller reads. Kids giggle, observers scribble, and Nickelodeon finds another way into kids' imaginations--and their parents' wallets...