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Gabriel Aeppli was born in Switzerland, but when he was 1 year old, his father came to the U.S. to pursue a career as a mathematician. Back then, America was a scientific "city on the hill," a place where enormous resources, academic freedom, a tradition of skepticism and a history of excellence lured everyone from astronomers to zoologists from all over the world, and like Aeppli's father, many of them never had any interest in leaving...
...Yale, Lee Bollinger at Columbia and a half-dozen more are transforming their universities into global institutions -- seeking the best students from around the world and sending them to far-flung places to learn the skills that will secure them places among the global elite. 'We want the brilliant mathematician whose mother is a chambermaid in Romania,' says Summers...
Raoul Bott, a prestigious mathematician and Harvard professor emeritus who taught at the College for over 40 years, died of lung cancer on Dec. 20 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif...
...sitting in Small World Coffee, the place in Princeton, N.J., where locals go when they want to avoid the sterile trendiness of Starbucks, just around the corner. The place is packed with students and professors. Nobel prizewinners drop in frequently (John Nash, the mathematician hero of A Beautiful Mind, is a regular). But I'm not here for intellectual-celebrity watching. I'm here because my editor has ordered up a story on the question of whether caffeine makes you smarter. And without a latte?with three shots of espresso today instead of the regular two?I wouldn't feel...
...patrons crowding Small World Coffee, all of that is beyond the immediate point, which seems to be nothing more than getting a morning fix of one caffeinated drink or another before setting off to conquer the intellectual challenges waiting at the university just up the street. "A mathematician," the legendary number theorist Paul Erdos used to say, "is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." Organic chemistry, neuroscience, psychology and pretty much universal experience suggest that he probably was on to something...