Word: mathematician
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...able to offer him advice on his immigration problems. That led to a seven-year correspondence. From November 1988 to November 1995, Ted wrote to Sanchez as often as eight times a year in neatly penned, grammatical Spanish. Ted wrote mostly of his poverty and isolation. With a mathematician's precision he described his finances down to the penny. "As to my poverty, I have $53.01 exactly, barely enough to stave off hunger this winter without eating rabbits." At Christmastime 1994, Ted sent Sanchez an intricately carved wooden tube marked with a Latin motto, Montana Semper Liberi (Mountain...
Before I came to college, I never really thought about such questions. I was going to Harvard. I could be whatever I chose. At 13, I had wanted to be a mathematician; at 17, I had thought I would be an English professor; at 20, who knew what I would want? This was the 1990s; my options were endless...
Jaffe will serve for one year as president-elect starting February 1, 1996, and then as president during 1997 and 1998. He will replace Cathleen S. Morawetz, a mathematician at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University...
...student does equally good work in math and in fine arts, and gets a B+ in the former and an A- in the latter and therefore concludes that she is a better fine artist than mathematician--when all she is observing is the different evaluative conventions between fields--that is a matter of considerable concern to me," Lewis says...
Harris takes for his hero a neurasthenic mathematician named Tom Jericho, frail, distracted, fluky even by the measure of other code breakers at Bletchley, a town west of Cambridge where the secret intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space...