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...student does equally good work in math and in fine arts, and gets a B+ in the former and an A- in the latter and therefore concludes that she is a better fine artist than mathematician--when all she is observing is the different evaluative conventions between fields--that is a matter of considerable concern to me," Lewis says...
Kiran S. Kedlaya '96, a two-time Putnam fellow and resident of Quincy House, was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Morgan Prize Committee for his undergraduate research in math...
Kedlaya, a resident of Maryland and a math and physics concentrator, was recommended to the Morgan Prize Committee by Joe Gallian of the University of Minnesota, Duluth. In high school, Kedlaya was a three-time winner of the USA Math Olympiad and won two gold medals and a silver medal at the International Math Olympiad...
...MATH CURSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16.99), is a great book for kids still too young to know they hate math. Even the dedication is fiendish: "If the sum of my nieces and nephews equals 15, and their product equals 54, and I have more nephews than nieces, how many nephews and how many nieces is this book dedicated to?" O.K., 9 and 6. But when the teacher, Mrs. Fibonacci, counts "1,1,2,3,5,8,13..." what are the next five numbers in her puzzle...
...Tuesday, departments scheduled to attend are Applied Mathematics, Astronomy, Biochemical Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Chemistry and Physics, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Science and Public Policy, History and Literature, Math. Philosophy, Psychology and Special Concentrations...