Word: math
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response that is deeper and more consistent: Any man's death makes me smaller, less than I was before I learned of that death, because the world is a map of interconnections. As the world decreases in size, so must each of its parts. Donne's math works too. Since the entire world suffers a numerical loss at an individual's death, then one must feel connected to the entire world to feel the subtraction equally...
Along with the Math and Physics Olympics, the International Chemistry Olympiad is held annually in Europe; but this is the first year America entered the 20-country event...
...young Bell scientist makes a major math breakthrough
Like American Airlines, thousands of companies must routinely untangle the myriad variables that complicate the efficient distribution of their resources. Solving such monstrous problems requires the use of an abstruse branch of mathematics known as linear programming. It is the kind of math that has frustrated theoreticians for years, and even the fastest and most powerful computers have had great difficulty juggling the bits and pieces of data. Now Narendra Karmarkar, a 28-year-old Indian-born mathematician at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., after only a year's work has cracked the puzzle of linear programming...
...German wunderkind who astounded the math world last year turned down Harvard's offer his fall but the slot may still be open...