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...reconcile this difference, we struggle to create a proper context for ourselves. On a basic level, this means finding our communities: my desire to write rambling columns might seem out of context in the math department, so I gravitate toward the humanities. That’s a move that most of us make fairly early. In every aspect of our lives—academic, social, cultural, extracurricular—we try to find the places where it is least likely that people will think we’re crazy, the places where our goals and sentiments are most likely...
After Enron’s collapse, Krugman also assailed Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for doing fuzzy math of a different sort. He accuses Cheney of engaging in a less than immaculate collaboration with Enron when creating an energy plan. He excavates an embarrassing connection between the defense-contracting Carlyle Group, of which George H. W. Bush is an employee, and the bin Laden family. And he exposes Harken Energy’s fake profits and hidden losses, noting that George W. Bush had not only heavily invested in the company, but sat on its board of directors...
...style swinging doors, but rather like “a sort of side door with an [elevated] window—one of those glass doors you see in movies that people jump into and the glass shatters.” This analogy seems fair, as Ganatra certainly crashed the math party, having accomplished his mathematical feat at such a young age. After much prodding, Ganatra finally admitted to only studying specific infinite cases of the question, as opposed to addressing the entire question by looking at each and every case. This can slide, however; in the cases he did examine...
...have to do 500 number crunches a day. “Generally I try to be very well relaxed…kind of clear-headed, I think.” You don’t even have to give up the carbs to become a finely-tuned math machine—Ganatra finds his food for thought at Noch’s. And, for a good think, Ganatra heads to the Maxwell Dworkin building. “There’s a lot of energy there...
However, if the Sheel Ganatra Story ever reaches the silver screen, he hinted that he would continue the precedent set by John Nash, that henceforth all math protagonists be portrayed by Russell Crowe...