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...ever, Sakharov's first concern was human rights. He used his maiden appearance in the West to press the case of political prisoner Vazif Meylanov, a mathematician jailed after demonstrating for Sakharov's freedom. "It is my duty now, at this moment, to remember this man and many others who remain in prison," said Sakharov. Nor has Sakharov given up criticizing his country's regime. Five days before leaving Moscow for the U.S., where he is visiting relatives in Massachusetts and attending a meeting in Washington of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, he warned that...
...Graustein system was built around a set of premises that most faculty now consider obsolete. Graustein, the Harvard mathematician who invented the formula, calculated faculty distribution based on the assumption that the faculty would not grow and that new academic fields would not arise...
...German Mathematician Karl Gauss assumed that those inhabitants were intelligent. In 1820 he proposed growing a huge wheat field in Siberia in the form of a right triangle, surrounded by pine trees, that could be seen from afar. That would demonstrate to the Martians, Gauss figured, that earthlings not only existed but understood mathematics...
...more excited by this revelation than a wealthy American mathematician, diplomat and astronomer, Percival Lowell of Boston, who established an observatory in Arizona and dedicated it to the study of Mars. By 1908, influenced in part by optical illusions and wishful thinking, Lowell had counted and named hundreds of canals, which he believed were part of a large network conveying water from the polar ice caps to the parched cities of an arid and dying planet. Lowell's observations and musings, in turn, inspired British novelist H.G. Wells to write The War of the Worlds, a dramatic account...
...good fortune, and the patience to leave this jail and to reach the land of Israel in an honest and worthy way." His wife Avital, who indefatigably campaigned around the globe for his release, symbolized for him the one "fixed point" he could absolutely rely upon. Like another mathematician before him, Archimedes, he reckoned that with a place to stand on he could move the earth. And so he did. His early release in 1986 as a result of international pressure and his triumphant arrival in Israel were understood by millions as just such a feat...