Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Applied Math program should bring more of the Faculty into advising math students," Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, explained. Birkhoff is a member of the Committee of Advisers in Applied Math. Other members of the Committee represent the Departments of Statistics, Economics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Applied Physics, as well as the Computation Laboratory...
...main difference between the Mathematics and Applied Mathemathics programs," Birkhoff said, "is that students learn to prove theorems in math, but will learn to use them in Applied Math, will all due respect to rigor...
Flexible Managers. Founder Mellon required all applicants to have undergraduate degrees in math, science or engineering. Master's students get a basic two-year dose of law, economics, politics, psychology, sociology, statistics and writing, plus more math and science. The goal, says Dean Richard M. Cyert, 40, a top scholar of statistical sampling,' is "men flexible enough to accept future challenges...
...mustachioed Pro fessor Emeritus Theodore Sizer, a splendidly offbeat art historian now serving as Yale's first "Pursuivant of Arms" (designer of college flags). Himself a Yaleman ('53), the younger Sizer first learned that he liked teaching when he became an Army gunnery instructor, later taught math and English at Boston's private Roxbury Latin School. By 1961 he was an assistant professor, with a Harvard Ph.D. in history and education. More important, he became director of the education school's main claim to fame, the Master of Arts in Teaching program, which turns able college...
...fitting motto for Swarthmore College near Philadelphia would be the exhortation that a Quaker math professor used to give her students: "Use thy gumption." Though it seems pathetically small (547 men, 447 women), Swarthmore has such gumptious devotion to excellence that some awed academics call it the No. 1 college in the U.S. However impious this may appear to Yale or Harvard, hundreds of the country's brightest youngsters have reason to agree. Of 2,000 applicants in a typical year, Swarthmore enrolls only about 260-making it one of the toughest colleges in the U.S. to get into...