Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education: Noble and Greenough School in Mass.; Harvard magna cum laude (Math...
Statistically this year's freshman class at the New Jersey college doesn't appear much different from the Class of 1955 here. The Tiger year-lings averaged in the 580's in the verbal part of the College Boards, and about 600 on the math part. Freshmen here scored slightly higher on the verbal part, and about the same on the math...
...that failed to finish was Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr. '52. He said he found the Math easy, but the English was "no snap." He claimed he "was working all the time," but after a while be "get fed up with" the word problems...
...teach freshman Mathematics for several years. Since his retirement in 1940, he has also written several mathematical treatises, "The History of Conic Sections" and "The Mathematics of Great Amateurs," which deals with the achievements of men who were famous in another field and only debbied in math as a pastime...
...equivalent of an undergraduate training in physics." ("That is absolutely untrue!" says Phillipe LeCorbeiller, Professor of Applied Physics, to whom Goodwin brought his early research for criticism. "His physics was on a very high graduate level.") "I'm a Sunday mathematician," says Goodwin. "I have no aptitude for math." ("Ha!" says LeCorbeiller. "Remember, whatever Richard Goodwin tells you about himself, that is by twelve shades an understatement...