Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line. Placement in one job or another, say computers or medical technician, is determined by a test. Many ambitious but disadvantaged young men who might otherwise be placed in a computer training program in the Army would undoubtedly be bumped from that position by one of the many college math students drafted. What I am getting at is that in the army you have the same stratification as you do in civilian life. The military draft does not bring democracy or equality to the army it merely transfers wholesale the inequalities of society to the military services...
...this book now, and quite possibly you never had, but as soon as you see a copy you'll grab it and turn to page 177. You'll find come a few statistics you probably already know. Male/female ratio of 65:35; average SAT scores of 700 verbal, 675 math--you get the idea...
...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...
...origin of the Yellow Pig is shrouded in obscurity: Kelly refuses to divulge the secret. Of the many "creation myths," though, Benji N. Fisher '85 offers the most probable explanation: "In Princeton about 30 years ago. David Kelly and Michael Spivak (author of several math textbooks) were drinking buddies, and instead of seeing pink elephants, they saw yellow pigs...
...participants resist classification, but the bottom line for many is a feeling of isolation. "A talent for mathematics is somehow the worst thing a young person can have, to his compatriots, you grow up defending it," says Jonathan Siegel '84, a Hampshire alumnus. For most "ordinary" high school students, math is something you have to get over with, but certainly shouldn't enjoy. Many Hampshirites say they spent years hiding their love of math in school, even while pursuing it, so as to be more socially "acceptable." For such students the liberating effect of the program is enhanced...