Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view our project as the continuation ofstudents like those in 1969 who sought to increasetheir role of influence at the University," saidZachary Robinson, a math graduate student andorganizer of the Students for Empowerment...
Daniel Brenner '85-'86, who spent a year teaching math in a private school, takes a philosophical approach to time off. "You may not come back a buddha or anything, but you come back more confident about school and why you're doing it," says the native New Yorker. "Coming back to Harvard was my decision, and that made being in college more of an active than a passive thing...
...sciences everyone knows someone isgoing to be great when they're 22 or something,"said Heimert, the literature professor. "In math,someone has solved an equation no one else hasever solved...
...largest departmental course is Math 21a, "Multivariable Calculus," in 12th place, with 257 people registered...
Mathematics mixed with political science was "an extremely novel combination at the time," Shepsle says. "Twenty years later--well, I don't want to say it's mainstream, but it's certainly a respected tradition." And mixing math with government is certainly what Shepsle is good at. "Ken combines an interest in theoretical government with expert empirical hoking and poking around in real institutions. There are not very many people who do his sort of inductive analysis who have also spent time hanging around Congress interviewing people," says Robert H. Salisbury, chairman of Washington University's political science department...