Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there be a set of numbers between zero and zero-zero? It sounds like the most abstruse speculation in mathematics. But the math in this case is the potentially lethal calculus of nuclear weaponry, and so the question is leading to a backstage brawl in Washington...
...Bridgeport parents pay from $900 for one child to $1,750 for three or more children. Talented students are motivated to excel; those with less ability at least learn the basics. Like many Christian schools, the Bridgeport Academy uses a core curriculum of social studies, science, math, English and spelling interspersed with Bible teachings. The results make a strong case: at Bridgeport, eighth-grade students taking the Metropolitan Achievement Test averaged tenth-grade levels. At Nebraska's Faith Baptist, pupils scored a year ahead of their public school counterparts on the California Achievement Test...
...first lesson came straight out of Math At whoever wins more events wins the meet Harvard grabbed 10 of 13 first-place finishes and doubled with a second place in five of those...
...such mechanical contrivances were no more than calculators. They could only do arithmetic, and very clumsily at that. The first man to conceptualize a true computer, one that would be able to do math and much more, was an irascible 19th century English mathematician named Charles Babbage. Incensed by the inaccuracies he found in the mathematical tables of his time, the ingenious Babbage (father of the speedometer, the cowcatcher for locomotives and the first reliable life-expectancy tables) turned his fertile brain to creating an automaton that could rapidly and accurately calculate long lists of functions like logarithms. The result...
Lansing's appointment as the boss of Fox films was regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model, actress (with John Wayne in Rio Lobo) and $5-an-hr. script reader, Lansing moved to Fox from Columbia, where she had risen quickly to senior vice president of production...