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Western governments should press the Soviet Union to respond to President Carter's human rights declaration while they continue to open up trade relations. Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident, told an overflow crowd at Boylston Hall Auditorium last night...
...member Soviet delegation boycotted the debate over the censure -"We consider it rigged," said one delegate-but argued outside the halls that the charges were preposterous. After Dissident Mathematician Leonid Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...
...magazine's readers was young Fernand Braudel, then a fledgling schoolteacher in Algiers. "I am someone without ambition," Braudel remarked to TIME'S Ellie McGrath. "My father was a mathematician and wanted me to be a mathematician, so studying history was an adolescent revolt against my father." Looking out across the Mediterranean and wondering what to work on for his doctoral dissertation, Braudel decided on King Philip. But "little by little," recalls Braudel, "Philip II attracted me less and less, and the Mediterranean more and more." There was also the influence of Febvre, who had himself done work...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, mathematician and artist whom Time Magazine named last week as one of Ten Teachers Who Shape the Future, said yesterday he turned to law as a career after he graduated because he "couldn't live with a blackboard" as a mathematician...
...cooling might be explained by a link between ice ages and changes both in the earth's attitude and in its orbit around the sun. That concept was championed by Germany's Alfred Wegener (best known for his ideas about continental drift) and later refined by Yugoslav Mathematician Milutin Milankovitch, for whom the theory is now named. Last year three scientists -James Hays of Columbia, John Imbrie of Brown University and Nicholas Shackleton of Cambridge University in England-published the strongest evidence yet that Milankovitch was right. Analyzing cores of sediments taken from beneath the floor...