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Reminders of the bizarre Pavlovich saga continue to turn up. Eric Roberts, an Applied Math tutor, discovered a set of Harvard Trust Co. checks with the name "S.M. Pavlovich III" in a gutter earlier this week...
...would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching post as soon as the department voted to switch to his text several years ago. "I get embarrassed about using my own," Loomis confided. "Anyway, it's easier to use someone else's book. When you use your own, you're inclined to repeat yourself. Besides that, students...
...from modernity. Veronique also keeps a diary. (You visualize the schema: 11-year-old girls draw horses, 12-year-old girls draw fashion models, 13-year-old girls keep diaries. Everybody knows that. In her family living room we have been spying her, every evening after supper, ostensibly unravelling math problems for school, but in reality, of course, documenting the sordid details of her mother's scary sleep-walking, her father's hunger for inheritance, plus all the humorless nagging and nit-picking French bourgeois coupling. (Not for spite or for blackmail, but she confesses--addressing the camera like...
...desperation because nothing has been published in the field, like the Ho-Bryson work, are usually written out of dissatisfaction with what has been rolling off publishing house presses. The way Lynn Loomis, whose new book "Calculus" replaced George Thomas's leading work in the field as the Math I text-book, explains the procedure. "You set out to write the definitive textbook. I taught the course [Math I] for a number of years, and never liked any of the books we used. So I tried to write the best," Loomis said recently...
...Frontiers. The proof announced by Mathematicians Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in this month's math society Bulletin is no joke, however. They began by viewing the different possible maps that might be constructed in terms of simple and therefore mathematically manageable dots and lines. By this "graph" system, each country became a point; boundaries between countries became lines linking the dots. Painstakingly examining every imaginable map that could be fashioned out of these points and lines, Appel and Haken concluded that no matter how complex the map was, it had to contain at least...