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...college freshman, Lisa J. Randall '84 stood out for many reasons. In her first semester, she enrolled in Math 55 and Physics 55, the most difficult freshman math and physics classes offered...
...Columbia in search of a professor willing to teach him.“[The note] basically said, ‘Help this kid learn some stuff, he’s beyond what we can do,’” Greene recalled. He found a teacher in the math department who agreed to take him on, and the two met three times a week until his high school graduation.“That’s where the interest really flourished,” Greene said. “I was able to keep going on at a pace...
...Randall grew up in New York City in the 1970s and attended Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school that focuses on math and science. In her early years, she was interested in a wide array of subjects. Though she described herself as a voracious reader, she was particularly drawn to math...
Fifty years after graduating, David S. Rosenthal ’59 still spends his weekdays in the Square, decorates his walls with Harvard posters, and regularly eats lunch with College students. But now instead of finishing his math problem sets, he bides his time in the Holyoke Center working as the director of Harvard University Health Services. When Rosenthal first moved into Harvard Yard, he was unsure if he wanted to be a doctor at all. It would take the death of a close friend to convince Rosenthal to pursue a career in medicine. Instead, upon moving into his Thayer...
...their own right.But not until a research trip to India in the mid 60s, did Marglin politicize his economics. Marglin said that his so-called radicalization was a gradual progression that lacked definite turning points.But in India, Marglin came as close as he ever would to such a moment.Teaching math-savvy Indian grad students basic macroeconomics, Marglin found his students nonplussed by the economic theory despite their deep understanding of the mathematics. That realization in India propelled Marglin towards a leftist economic career that would challenge the Western-centric assumptions behind orthodox economic theory.Not until Marglin left Harvard...