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...heard nothing for my whole life but about how great Berkeley’s math department is,” said Katherine L. Evans ’08, whose father is a Berkeley mathematician. “It’s nice to see that Harvard is catching...
...easy to lose sight of in a crowd, and wouldn’t be caught dead in a beret. Yet, he’s been quietly redefining artistic expression for more than a decade. “I’m a computer scientist and a mathematician. That’s my palette,” he says. He possesses degrees in computer science and math from Brown University to back up that claim.For a long time, he used this palette to write CGI programs for George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic special-effects team, allowing them...
...Wilfried Schmid, the Robinson professor of mathematics, said that because the words “such as” appeared in an explanatory note to the secondary fields legislation, the debate over double counting might be moot, Summers quipped, “Seems like an appropriate comment for a mathematician to make—although I don’t understand it.” Speaking after Summers, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez said, “As the conversation we’ve just had illustrates, this is a very complicated matter...
...Wilfried Schmid, the Robinson professor of mathematics, said that because the words “such as” appeared in an explanatory note to the secondary fields legislation, the debate over double counting might be moot, Summers quipped, “Seems like an appropriate comment for a mathematician to make—although I don’t understand...
Tensions between University President Lawrence H. Summers’ supporters and opponents lingered at yesterday’s Faculty meeting, with one of the outgoing president’s critics, mathematician Wilfried Schmid, telling the pro-Summers Yiddish scholar Ruth R. Wisse to “stop poisoning the atmosphere at this University...