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...scientists to understand the method of science and appreciate its inherent complexities. With half of the student body fulfilling requirements in courses such as Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives,” the College currently allows most students to escape confrontation with hard math and physics...
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...don’t regret the engineering degree,” he said. “I see math as a language. The more languages one acquires, the more competent one is in the world...
...takes away a lot of the stigma” associated with getting help. During the 2002-2003 academic year, there were 1,055 requests for tutoring in 201 different courses, which added up to 5,709 hours of peer tutoring in total. The Writing Center and the Math Help center in Loker Commons are also available if you need to polish a paper or can’t make head or tail of your problem...
Lander, 47, a math prodigy who learned genetics in his spare time, has always seemed a little larger than life. He was valedictorian of his class at brainy Stuyvesant High School in New York City, took first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, graduated first in his class at Princeton and earned a Ph.D. in math as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He was teaching economics at Harvard when he started reading about DNA. "Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core," he says. "This is the kind...