Word: mathematician
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After representatives of the Harvard MathBulletin finished speaking, RUS Co-President MeganE. Lewis '95 asked the what the content of theirfirst issue would be. They said they would includean interview with a female mathematician and anarticle on women in science...
...leak has sprung in the solution to Fermat's last theorem, the famous equation that has intrigued mathematicians for 350 years. The 200-page proof that Princeton mathematician Andrew Wiles unveiled with such panache last summer turns out to have a flaw. "I believe I will be able to finish this in the near future," Wiles told colleagues...
...this sounds damning, more of the same and then some can be found in Allen Esterson's Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud (Open Court; $52.95). As a mathematician, Esterson is vulnerable to charges from Freud loyalists that he is an amateur, unqualified to discuss the mysteries of psychoanalysis. Maybe so, but his relentless examinations of discrepancies, doctored evidence and apparent lies within Freud's own accounts of individual cases make for disturbing reading. Esterson's argument is often most effective ! when it quotes the analyst directly on his therapeutic techniques. Freud regularly sounds like...
...judges were asked to evaluate, on a scale of one to 15, the performance of musician, mathematician or a mile runner, they would not be told to omit the numbers 1, 5, 9 and 13. Not only would such an omission be odd, but it would divide what should be a natural continuum of performance into artificial categories...
Having succeeded in Schaumburg, the 52-year-old mathematician last week announced that he would try again in Rochester, New York, this time for Eastman Kodak. It may be the most calculating task of his career. He takes over as chairman, president and chief executive officer from Kay Whitmore, whose three-year tenure as CEO came to an ignominious end three months ago when the company's board of directors asked him to resign as soon as a successor could be found...