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Chemistry Professor Jim Friend, for example, created an electronic periodic table for use in his general chemistry classes. Another chemist, Allan Smith, designed a "molecular editor" that can display, rearrange and rotate crystal structures made up of as many as 99 atoms. Mathematician Bernard Kolman created a program that will solve complex matrix algebra problems and explain each step along the way. Electrical Engineer Banu Onaral developed a series of programs that generate wave forms on the screen and manipulate them according to the basic rules of signal processing. "These are very theoretical subjects that require some brain gymnastics...
...such client states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied a ban on demonstrations outside the Soviet embassy...
Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Cornell University Astronomer Thomas Gold has forged a distinguished career by believing six impossible things before breakfast. In the late 1940s, he, Astronomer Fred Hoyle and Mathematician Hermann Bondi roiled the cosmological community when they countered an early version of the big-bang theory of the universe with their steady state model, which stipulated the continual creation of matter (a concept now completely out of favor). In 1968 Gold was the first to propose that pulsars were rapidly rotating neutron stars (all evidence suggests he was right...
...last week, the Soviets did not appear. Instead Moscow simply sent a message to the conference organizer inviting him to the Soviet Union to discuss "our scientific relationship." Speculation as to why the Soviets did not attend has centered on the disappearance in Spain last spring of top Soviet mathematician Vladimir Alexandrov...
...study, which was commissioned in 1983 by the Department of Defense's nuclear agency, cautioned that uncertainties remain in many of the calculations. Even so, said George E Carrier, an applied mathematician at Harvard University who was chairman of the 18-member committee, the N.A.S. findings were "consistent" with the original studies, which predicted global cooling and severe hardship for any survivors. The panel recommended that high priority be given to serious research to try to answer some of the more elusive questions that the nuclear-winter theory has raised...