Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plotting the story were two smart mathematicians, Harvard's Frederick Mosteller, and the University of Chicago's David L. Wallace, who have great faith that math can supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office...
...colleagues are busily doing the same for elementary school science. Astronomy starts in fourth grade in East Whittier, Calif., and geometry in second grade in Burlingame. Calif. At San Francisco's Herbert Hoover Junior High School, which last year had 14-year-olds earning college credits in math. 40 of this year's seventh-graders will be so well started that once they get to college they may get M.A.s in math before they graduate...
...numerous musical competitions while also acting at the Cleveland Playhouse. He also painted; Washington's National Gallery owns some of his work. In high school, he won third prize at the National Science Fair for building a symbolic logic computer. At Kenyon College ('60), he majored in math...
Faubus is running in the primaries against five other Democrats, and the two who are giving him trouble are both old Faubus allies. One is moderate Sid Mc-Math, Governor from 1949 to 1953, who broke with Faubus over the Little Rock episode; the other is Congressman Dale Alford, a strong segregationist who had filed for his candidacy under the impression that Faubus would not run (Faubus' ulcer was kicking up) and is now campaigning against Faubus' long incumbency and against integration as well. Caught between the two, Faubus shrewdly decided to chuck segregation as a dead issue...
...problem by competence in either a foreign language or in mathematics, and along this line might be put in there seems to be little current demand for more math instruction. The requirement might just be raised, the placement tests and the level to be passed. At least one year of foreign literature might...