Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last book on my nightstand, and the one furthest out of my normal range, is called Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstader. It won the Pulitzer Prize in the early 1980s and ties together math, art and music through images of endlessly looping equations, drawings and musical canons. I've slugged through about 200 pages of it. Although it's starting to get into deep computer theory, which is difficult to read, it's still interesting...
...prostitute to pay her tuition at New York University. Right away we know we are in for humor of the zanily incongruous sort because Belle has given her heroine a some-of-my-best-friends-went-to-Exeter name: Bennington Bloom. Bennington is the daughter of a well-off math professor, which makes her job choice even more implausible. She is not so much a hooker with a heart of gold as she is a hooker with nerves of creme brulee, says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. She is comically neurotic -- her heels and condoms are always spilling...
...days I was reading about the after-math of the symphony's demise, I was also listening to a CD I had just bought: Bach's six solo cello suites. A friend had recommended them, and as I listened I thought that there was little better than this on earth. I have had similar feelings about many of the pieces I was exposed to in Robert Levin's Core course, Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel." From Schubert's light Trout Quintet to Beethoven's brooding late string quartets, all nine pieces I was required...
...math has even framed the way in which he reflects upon his four years at Harvard. On his way back from the Champagne Brunch, Kedlaya says he had a striking thought...
...weekend following our interview, Kedlaya flew to Memphis, Tennessee to help grade the U.S. Math Olympiad--the third in a series of tests begun by several hundred thousand high school students across the country. Undoubtedly, many of them will have dreams of becoming just as "statistically significant" as he.CrimsonJohn C. Mitchell...