Word: maths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Math v. Fairy Tales. Last week the university had to admit that it had been the victim of one of the strangest academic hoaxes in history. Yates, it seemed, was not the real Yates at all, but 31-year-old Marvin Hewitt of Hempstead, N.Y. He had never gone beyond high school, had never been to Wooster or Ohio State, and the Christie Co. that recommended him simply did not exist. Why had he taken on another man's name and record? It was, said Hewitt, "a compulsion. I always wanted to teach...
...compulsion, according to Hewitt, came to him early. The son of a Philadelphia laborer, he had begun "taking math books out of the library when the other kids took out fairy tales." At ten he was reading books on Einstein's theory of relativity, later became interested in psychology because "I recognized myself as a brilliant child." In his teens Hewitt claims to have mastered engineering, once wrote a paper for a state engineering society that was "so complicated that no more than three men in the room understood it." It did not really bother him that his father...
...songs Tom Lehrer, who writes the words and music for the little ditties which he sings while accompanying himself on the piano. He retired from the University last year after ten years. In the last four of his years of graduate work; he held a teaching fellowship in Math...
...Tuscan republican who named his children after the heroes of Italy's risorgimento. Amintore was named after the man who wrote Hymn of the Workers, a labor union song which the Communists have since stolen. Amintore was still a bright young student, a particular whiz at math and physics, when Mussolini kicked his father out of Parliament for his liberalism...
...Math IA follows Finley's course with 539 students, thus remaining in second place for the second consecutive year. Close behind are Economics 1, with 522, and Government 1B, with 496. Last year, Economics had climbed from seventh to fourth place, and how stands third; Government, now fourth, was sixth last year...