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...Ericsson's primary finding is that rather than mere experience or even raw talent, it is dedicated, slogging, generally solitary exertion - repeatedly practicing the most difficult physical tasks for an athlete, repeatedly performing new and highly intricate computations for a mathematician - that leads to first-rate performance. And it should never get easier; if it does, you are coasting, not improving. Ericsson calls this exertion "deliberate practice," by which he means the kind of practice we hate, the kind that leads to failure and hair-pulling and fist-pounding. You like the Tuesday New York Times crossword? You have...
...mathematician, but the discoveries by the forebears of the craft have done a pretty good job holding up over time. Isaac Newton showed us gravity. Albert Einstein taught us that everything is relative. And Euclid, the most famous mathematician of all, predicted a Harvard victory tomorrow in the 124th edition of The Game.He didn’t explicitly say Yale would lose, but it’s easy to extrapolate from one of his most basic geometrical rules: no physical object can be one-dimensional.And so go the hopes of the Bulldogs, a team that enters The Game riding the legs...
...Mathematician Benedict H. Gross ’71 drives an early-model hybrid, a 2001 Honda Insight. (“It’s aerodynamic and made of plastic,” the former dean of the College says. “They only made a couple hundred...
Other green-conscious professors contacted by The Crimson bragged about their fancy bicycles. Economist Emmanuel Farhi says his bike is “very powerful,” and physicist Gerald Gabrielse notes that his is made of titanium. Still others, such as economist Matthew Nunn, mathematician Bret J. Benesh, English professor Elizabeth D. Lyman, and political scientists Glyn Morgan and Cindy Skach said they used Zipcars when they needed mechanized transport. “Nearly everyone I know uses them,” Morgan says of his Cambridge neighbors. The Zipcar service allows people to rent cars quickly...
...much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries that by reducing music to a set of neurological functions, "the simple art of observation may be lost ... clinical description may become perfunctory and the richness of the human context...