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...Warshall, math whiz, played the part, teaching everyone a math major numbers game called Nim and then demolishing FM associate ed Antoinette C. Nwandu one-on-one in a Nim match. “You lost as soon as you made the first move, actually,” he shouted to general but slightly uneasy laughter...
That’s how Tad ended up at Harvard. A math concentrator (“I’ve never tried anything else”) and “second-generation mathematician,” Tad prefaces explanations of his courseload with such weighty questions as, “You did take calculus, right?” Far from simply finding the area under the curve, Tad is taking Math 135: Differential Topology, Math 191: Mathematical Probability, and Math 212: Functions of a Real Variable this semester. Conveniently, all three meet in the same room: Science Center...
...were running hundreds of courses--English, Dari, math, tailoring, computers, weaving, music. You would be surprised at how many 11-year-old girls there are who can speak perfect English," she says with a grin. Parents paid about $1 a month for each course, and the students carried the books for their classes hidden under their burkas...
...holes. For the past two years, Rawshan's eldest daughter Wahida, 10, has been going to a secret school in an abandoned building. She has only one hour of lessons a day, given by local women who volunteer their services, but she is slowly picking up the rudiments of math and learning how to read. "I would like my daughter to work outside the home," says Rawshan. "I stayed in the home, and I have had a terrible life...
...math: South Korea is expecting 140,000 visitors during the World Cup but has only 40,000 hotel rooms and 10,000 homestays. The government has had to enlist thousands of love hotels to plug the gap. They are called "budget inns" on the official accommodation website, worldinn.com, but most are the kind that rent rooms by the hour?up to a maximum of four hours?and where guests slip in through entrances artfully hidden behind massive potted plants. Worried that foreigners may get the wrong idea, the government recently ordered the hotels to abide by some decency rules: they...