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This is just one of the math jokes that can be found in Tangents, Harvard's new and only student-run math magazine...
...Tangents shows people the beauty of math without the usual rigor, and it is a journal for everyone to pick up," he said in an interview yesterday...
...areas of math that are interesting and beautiful are usually not appreciated or even presented to a general audience," he said...
...first Black tenured professor at Harvard, advised the leaders of the Black Students Association [BSA] that they should be "formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, [and] to overcome hypermacho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
Elkies says he tries to convey three significant ideas about mathematics to his students: "A) Math is something people can enjoy, B) they enjoy it for a good reason and C) it's still going on." Elkies actively challenges the idea that mathematicians today only fine-tune existing theory; he contends that many interesting problems remain unsolved...