Word: mathematician
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...gold medal that McMullen received has a profile of Archimedes--the great Greek mathematician who discovered a method of calculating pi--and the quotation "Transire suum pectus mundoque potri" meaning "Rise above oneself and grasp the world," according to a press release from...
Fields medal winners also receive a cash prize of $15,000 Canadian dollars, which is the equivalent of about $9,500 U.S. dollars, because the medal was established in 1936 by Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields...
...brain is a delicate instrument with too much complex wiring; all the data give him ferocious migraines. Yet it is the brain of this loopy mathematician (Sean Gullette) that makes him a captive of powerful groups with dark designs--some Wall Street sharpies and a coven of Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after...
Picasso was not a philosopher or a mathematician (there is no "geometry" in Cubism), but the work he and Braque did between 1911 and 1918 was intuitively bound to the perceptions of thinkers like Einstein and Alfred North Whitehead: that reality is not figure and void, it is all relationships, a twinkling field of interdependent events. Long before any Pop artists were born, Picasso latched on to the magnetism of mass culture and how high art could refresh itself through common vernaculars. Cubism was hard to read, willfully ambiguous, and yet demotic too. It remains the most influential art dialect...
...more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders' advice, upon distillation, condenses into pure common sense...