Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profession with no shortage of oddballs, he was the strangest. Erdos had no home, no possessions and no life aside from mathematics. He spoke a language all his own: "died" meant someone had stopped doing math; "left" meant the person had died; God was the "Supreme Fascist...
...Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic, to a father who owned a textile factory and had a fondness for logic and reason and a mother who believed in starting her son's education early. By age 10, Godel was studying math, religion and several languages. By 25 he had produced what many consider the most important result of 20th century mathematics: his famous "incompleteness theorem." Godel's astonishing and disorienting discovery, published in 1931, proved that nearly a century of effort by the world's greatest mathematicians was doomed to failure...
Kuziemko, an applied math and economicsconcentrator, sits on the student advisorycommittee of the Institute of Politics (IOP) andis involved with Harvard Model Congress Europe...
...passionate about math and music, but was brilliant all-around," said Peter S. Manasantivongs '99, a friend from high school who has known Jo for eight years...
...sure that many here at Harvard are intimately familiar with the cruelty of youth. I doubt that too many Math 55 prodigies look back fondly on middle school dances. Yet, we've all survived any travails we may have encountered and hopefully we've emerged stronger people as a result...