Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases. Hence there remained the gnawing feeling that there just might be one instance where, say, five colors were needed instead of only four. Indeed, when Scientific American's puckish columnist Martin Gardner last year announced that such a "counter example" had indeed been found, it stunned math buffs everywhere-until they realized the claim was an April Fool...
...classroom scenes are similar ,to those at other colleges. At Teacher Beverly Bocaner's class on auditory and communication processes, almost all the T-shirted, blue-jeaned students pay close attention, but in the back of the room a few students "whisper" (in discreet sign language). Says Senior Math Major David Birnbaum: "At Gallaudet I can argue and discuss things. I'm really part of the class...
Beauty Contest. But the stop-Carter drive has made only a modest start. Says a Democratic official in California: "What difference does it make if the train is going 30 m.p.h. instead of 60 when it runs over you? The results are the same." Carter's new math is intimidating. Through last week he had won 13 of the 19 primaries he entered and nearly 5 million votes-about four times the totals of Udall or Jackson. Even while losing the Maryland "beauty contest" to Brown, Carter picked up 32 of the state's delegates; he collected...
...been reading about Mr. Collier and what he says about crowding in Mather House. His numbers are kind of confusing, and I ain't so good at math. But I measured my bedroom today, and it was 100 inches wide, 94 inches long, and 941/2 inches high...
...Collier sure can do math, and I know you can't mess with the numbers, because figures don't lie. And I know most Houses can't have people living in living rooms like Mather can, because they would lose their privacy--people in Mather living rooms have plenty of privacy, long as no one wants to use the phone, or the refrigerator, or as long as no body walks in or out of the front door, or as long as no body wants to have a party, or play four-way bridge, or watch TV, or play some music...