Word: mathematician
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...consider the French revolution as the cradle of the systematic method in modern scientific endeavor," Professor Richard Courant, the eminent mathematician, told his Lowell House listeners Friday night...
...months of every year in examinations to weed out the weak and encourage the strong," said Courant. The Germans followed suit with a technical school in 1793, and both institutions collected the best minds of all ages. Napoleon drew on the Ecole for his Egyptian campaign, taking the celebrated mathematician Fourier along to decipher hieroglyphics, Courant related...
...Leverett Chair was created in 1958, to be held by either a physicist or a mathematician, but has remained vacant until this week...
...tiny steps really lead anywhere? A clue comes from comparing the first simple frames of a typical program with later ones. Here is frame No. 3 of Mathematician Lewis D. Eigen's Sets, Relations, and Functions, recently published for junior high schools by New York's nonprofit Center for Programed Instruction...
...people (it is usually unfortunate: he wears his first dinner jacket to a cocktail party). But this novel tells not of successful spivery but of a village innocence doggedly preserved amid fleshpots and sophistries-although the fleshpots are rather lean and the sophistries baffling only to Griff, the simple mathematician. Lydia Kilmartin, Eng. Lit., "smashing figure," is probably the most sophisticated item at Warbeck College; her specialty is getting colleagues' names wrong with comic intent and making outrageous sexual remarks at inappropriate times...