Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find in movies of this kind...
...alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane enough to defend himself if his best defense is that...
Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott has a favorite story about the meandering path he took to become a mathematician. As a graduate student disillusioned by engineering, he went to the Dean of the Medical School at McGill University in Canada to see if he could become a doctor...
...good to humanity? Is that why you want to be a doctor?' I hesitated in answering this, and he said, 'Because they make the worst doctors.' I got out and said to myself, 'Thank you, you sonofabitch.'Then I said, 'OK, I'll be a mathematician, because that's what I like...
Kaczynski Request Denied Unabomber-accused Theodore Kaczynski failed in his bid to fire his defense team and appoint a new attorney. Do more courtroom surprises await as the hermit mathematician?s trial resumes today? Full Story...