Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winters is a preceptor in the Harvard math department as well as publisher of the Cambridge Civic Journal, an e-mail newsletter providing political analyses of city happenings...
...living out loud means dispelling stereotypes about APA class and education and seeking justice for communities rendered invisible by the math whiz and successful businessman who get to stand...
There's no doubt that the film played toward every nerd stereotype and town-gown conflict it possibly could. The MIT math professor who discovers Hunting's genius is your basic arrogant academic who can't believe that the boy who sweeps his classroom can also solve equations. Hunting's girlfriend, a Harvard senior headed for med school, is rich, privileged, and housed in an ivy-covered dorm which could be any of Harvard's undergraduate houses...
...Office of the Registrar reports that males outnumber females in almost every science and math concentration--including applied mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, biochemical sciences, chemistry, chemistry and physics, computer science, physics and the engineering sciences...
There is a disproportionate number of men to women in the math and science concentrations. Concentration Men Women Applied Math (168) 86% 14% Astronomy and Astrophysics (16) 94% 6% Biochemical Sciences (384) 62% 38% Biology (489) 51% 49% Chemistry (154) 62% 38% Chemistry and Physics (34) 71% 29% Computer Science (185) 85% 15% Earth and Planetary Sciences (38) 47% 53% Engineering Sciences (78) 82% 18% Environmental Science and Public Policy (144) 43% 57% History and Science (202) 40% 60% Mathematics (126) 80% 20% Physics...