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Before I came to college, I never really thought about such questions. I was going to Harvard. I could be whatever I chose. At 13, I had wanted to be a mathematician; at 17, I had thought I would be an English professor; at 20, who knew what I would want? This was the 1990s; my options were endless...
Jaffe will serve for one year as president-elect starting February 1, 1996, and then as president during 1997 and 1998. He will replace Cathleen S. Morawetz, a mathematician at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University...
...student does equally good work in math and in fine arts, and gets a B+ in the former and an A- in the latter and therefore concludes that she is a better fine artist than mathematician--when all she is observing is the different evaluative conventions between fields--that is a matter of considerable concern to me," Lewis says...
Harris takes for his hero a neurasthenic mathematician named Tom Jericho, frail, distracted, fluky even by the measure of other code breakers at Bletchley, a town west of Cambridge where the secret intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space...
...Lost World, Michael Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park, a group of scientists travel to a remote island to investigate reports that live dinosaurs are once again running loose. In this excerpt, mathematician Ian Malcolm (a leftover from Jurassic Park) and animal behaviorist Sarah Harding face the consequences when two tyrannosaurs drop by their trailer-laboratory to reclaim an injured baby dinosaur that the scientists have been nursing...