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...buzz of chatter permeates the overheated bus. The conversations change topics with amazing speed. A pair of women, one of them the dark-curly haired women, discuss a mysterious stain on someone's scalp, then start talking about a math problem they couldn't solve--something about substituting theta for x. A few minutes later, the dark-curly haired woman exclaims, inexplicably, "But he's a married man, with kids...
Department members say that Harvard's recent triumphs in the Putnam competition are largely due to the influx of highly talented students to the department. And in turn, each additional win functions as an "advertisement," attracting more students, Math affiliates said...
...word has apparently spread beyond the United States. Last summer, Jaffe recieved letters from two Soviet and two Chinese students expressing interest in attending Harvard and concentrating in math, he said...
Each of the Harvard team members will be awarded about $250, and the Math Department will recieve about $5000, according to Gleason...
Harvard students who place among the top percentages of the competition traditionally proceed to coach high school students in other mathematics competitions, Taubes said. Personal contact with Harvard math concentrators has served to perpetuate the strength of the Math Department by giving the students incentive to bring their talent to Harvard, he said...