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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. James R. Newman, 58, lawyer-turned-author, who made math digestible to the unscientific mind with 15 well-received books including his 1956 World of Mathematics, a four-volume survey that sold 160,000 copies; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase...
...learned man plus a group of students, but the pattern can work out in sharply varied and instructive styles. None of TIME'S ten teachers, for example, court popularity, but none go farther in scorning it than Amherst's Arnold Arons, 49, who has created a demanding course in math and physics that all freshmen must take. He flunks more frosh than any other Amherst prof, barks "You are an idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer...
...innovation was developed during the summer of 1963 when Yu-Chi Ho, associate professor of Engineering and Applied Math, and Arthur E. Benson Jr., Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, offered a summer course in Control of Dynamic Systems. They invited Howard Raiffa, professor of Business Administration, to give a guest lecture, and discovered that his techniques were not very different from their...
...policy was necessitated, Paul said, by the flexibility of the field which combined math, chemistry, physics, and a number of other sciences. It is possible for a student to get grades that would merit highest honors, while taking only introductory courses. When this problem first arose, the Committee on Physical Sciences referred it to the Committee on Educational Policy, which cancelled highest honors...
Sternberg has been on the Faculty since 1959 and is an expert in differential geometry. He teaches Math 55b and Math 267. In addition, Sternberg is a Talmudic scholar...