Word: mathematician
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...Americans and a German were also rewarded with the Nobel Prize in Economics using game strategy -- employed in, say, chess and poker -- to predict the market. The winners: John C. Harsanyi, a retired professor from the University of California at Berkeley; John F. Nash, a mathematician at Princeton University; and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn...
...physicist, it's an important electromagnetic quantity. To a mathematician, it's the flow out of a surface. For the sport of baseball, it's a disaster in the making...
...best things Brack did was bring Don Logan, then the CEO of our Southern Progress subsidiary in Alabama, to New York as president and chief operating officer of Time Inc. in 1992. A mathematician by training, the burly, soft-spoken Logan quickly proved a decisive and imaginative partner as the two men together set about positioning Time Inc. for future growth in both print and multimedia in the electronic...
Heller will be ninth in a line of rabbis that stretches back to the famous early 17th century Mishnah commentator Yom-Tov Lippman Heller. After first setting hands on a computer in second grade, however, Heller always assumed he'd be a mathematician or do something with computers. By fifth grade, he was proficient enough that an older student paid him to hack into a strip poker software program...
...know if Michael Crichton reads Eco, but he had the perfect riposte in Jurassic Park, when its creator dismisses the marauding dinosaurs and general chaos with "When they opened Disneyland, nothing worked." To which the wise-guy mathematician responds, "But when the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists...