Word: mathe
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...graduate student who plans to become a teacher and wants to keep his students interested, Sandel said moral philosophy is easy to make interesting, because "it puts a premium on input and on arguments back and forth." But Sandel added, "I don't think you can do that with math...
Streleski had languished at Stanford University for 19 years trying to complete his dissertation for his doctorate in mathematics. Finally, one day in August 1978, his frustration boiled over. He grabbed a sledgehammer, confronted Math Professor Karel deLeeuw and viciously bludgeoned him to death. Convicted of second-degree murder, Streleski refused parole three times because it would have required him to stay away from Stanford and undergo psychiatric treatment. Under California law he could be held no longer and had to be released unconditionally. "I am happy to get out," he said. "Stanford treats students criminally. If I express remorse...
...make kids aware of how they are caught up in the system," she explains. For example, activities in summer 1984 included games and tutoring in reading and math as well as visits with Cambridge City Councilors Saundra Graham and Alfred E. Vellucci and traveling south for the March on Washington, Dixon says...
Benjamin B. Robinson '85 and his brother, Zachary Robinson, a second-year math student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, were to receive their Harvard diplomas last June...
...make kids aware of how they are caught up in the system," she explains. For example, activities in summer 1984 included games and tutoring in reading and math as well as visits with Cambridge City Councilors Saundra Graham and Alfred E. Vellucci and traveling south for the March on Washington, Dixon says...