Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some Asian students say they often feel itis assumed that they are interested in math andscience, discouraging them to explore otheroptions...
...benched as a member of the varsity basketball team, he became head cheerleader instead. Reflecting on those years during a recent interview with TIME, Milken mused, "When things look their worst, you always have the seed of great improvements." At Berkeley during the mid-'60s, Milken concentrated on math and business courses rather than on protest. It was there that he first considered the far-reaching idea upon which he built his empire. Milken came across a study showing that junk bonds, which at the time were often called fallen angels because they were the downgraded debt of ailing companies...
...interview, Taylor says that specific math-music connections--like the 12-tone scale and the "mathematical" rhythm of music (with beats per measure that usually come in powers of two or three)--are potentially misleading. "You can find these links but they seeem contrived," he says...
Instead, the most convincing parallel is the very self-containment of both systems. "Both math and music take place in a vacuum," says Taylor. "Neither has a tight connection with reality, each has its own internal logic." This isolation may be just what math-musical individuals find so intriguing, Taylor says...
Perhaps it is no accident, Taylor suggests, that math concentrators are stereotyped as sloppy and socially awkward. They tend to be "non-visual people" not especially intrigued by human psychology, he says. They are drawn, as a result, to "self-contained" systems like math and music, and also discover that music fills an emotional need...