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...same time, it is an ideal school for men who would have no other chance to deal with the furtive gleams of their own minds. There is a breath-taking charm in a system that allows a young mathematician like English-born David Mumford, 22, now at Harvard, to pursue this kind of private passion: "At present I am working on ruled surfaces. These offer an accessible but nontrivial example of the pathology of moduli of higher dimensional varieties-a subject whose development is strikingly neglected...
Today, at 60, Righter has a staff of four secretaries, one mathematician, and two servants, produces a daily column syndicated in 253 U.S. newspapers, writes books (Astrology and You), and at his Victorian Hollywood home throws splashy parties that seem to come from a more storied era when only the screen was silent. Gouda-bodied actresses sight down their cigarette holders at producers; social climbers pretend fascination with semiliterate stars. When Taurus is the sign of the time, there is a live bull on the front lawn, and when Leo reigns, a full-grown lion. For Scorpio last week, there...
...year mix of the program. In his first year, the student will spend a full year of graduate work in his subject under supervision of top scholars from various divisions of the university proper. Among the teachers: Historians Daniel Boorstin and Louis Gottschalk, Physicist Samuel Allison, Mathematician Marshall Stone. In addition, students will observe high school teaching, take a wide-ranging weekly seminar in the psychology of learning and the philosophy of education. In the student's second year, the emphasis shifts to a "teaching residency in a selected high school." Unlike unpaid practice teachers, the student will earn...
Revolt of the Machines. Greatest challenge to man's ascendancy is not other living creatures but mechanical monsters of his own creation, argued Mathematician Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. Dr. Wiener, inventor of the word "cybernetics" (science of control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...
gondola. A carrier to the fringe of space. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Descent to the Future. high wrangler. Cambridge University term for a top mathematician. See BOOKS, Wrangler's World...