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CHECK YOUR MATH The numbers looked good. Too good, it turns out. Early statistics showed cases of melanoma, breast, lung and colorectal cancers to be falling, but researchers now say these numbers are actually up, not down. The source of the error: not all cases diagnosed in a given year were included in that year's tally; between 3% and 12% of cancers went unrecorded because of reporting delays...
...then studied math and fashion design for a semester at Oklahoma State University, keeping in touch with family and friends from Harvard before falling out of contact in Sept...
...invented in Soviet Russia with catchy music and falling blocks. The Society’s constitution describes Tetris as a game that “presents a challenge in precision, timing, advanced planning, strategy and abstract spatial reasoning.” It may sound geeky and a bit too math-oriented, but that’s exactly how the society likes it. Rennard admits, “Tetris is pretty dorky, I won’t say it isn’t. But there’s something mesmerizing about the mathematical structure of the game...
...Future applied math concentrator Amy Y. Daharpuni ’06 has been making too many Venn diagrams lately. “When I go to parties, it’s like there’s this one subset of people that are hooking up and this other subset that’s puking all over themselves. And there’s always one person in the intersection of those sets.” Statisticians suggest that, more often that not, that person is William K. Weaver...
...academics” might be skeptical of his project. But for him, it’s the very invisibility of seers in the academic world that justifies the project to begin with. While pursuing his MFA at Yale, Mingwei was surprised to meet two professors—one of math, the other of statistics—who were also excellent tarot card readers. “They would never come out and say it,” he says, “because there’s something against it, like a taboo.” Doubts notwithstanding, Mingwei sees...