Word: mathe
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Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and an instructor in Math 1b, said yesterday that Math 1b was popular because of the "central position of calculus with respect to other subjects." The Harvard Top Ten Humanities 103 799 1 Ec 10 782 2 Fine Arts 13 356 3 Humanities 9b 350 4 Math 1b 317 5 Nat Sci 111 296 6 Chem 20b 270 7 English 151 268 8 His 1630 261 9 Physics...
...Math 1b, "Introduction to Calculus," Natural Sciences 111, "Computers in Society," and Chemistry 20b, "Organic Chemistry," were fifth, sixth, and seventh...
Thirteen men are seated at the terminals this Saturday night. Most of them are doing their Applied Math 110 homework, a few are working on Physics. One student is smiling and chatting--he's the terminal monitor. "If I had my way," he says, "this place would be closed down on Saturday nights." He describes the Saturday night crowd as, "those who don't have dates, those who have nothing better...
...woman marches in and accosts a student leaning against the table, staring at the blackboard where half-erased math problems and messages are scrawled. She asks to use his terminal for a short while. She has finished her first computer program and is eager to see if it works...
...conducting cram courses for admission to universities have become big business for moonlighting teachers; their wages normally range from 100 to 145 rubles a month-lower than the 153-ruble wage of the industrial worker. A poll conducted at Moscow University has shown that 85% of freshmen in the math department had used private tutors to prepare for admission...