Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory behind Math 55 is that we wanted to design a course that helps [students] mature as mathematicians rather than as course takers," Professor of Mathematics Clifford H. Taubes says. "People can do wonderfully at passing math but not being good mathematicians...
...York City and started an environmental lecture series there that ran from 1991 to '94. A few years later, he asked a former president of the business school club to join with him and a New Jersey school superintendent in a project for fifth-grade students: using their math, geography and social studies knowledge, the students were to design alternative modes of transportation for New Jerseyans commuting to Manhattan's World Trade Center. It was but one of several Linking Industry Nature Knowledge & Systems projects Henn would initiate with the school superintendent...
...says math can't solve real-world problems? Strolling through Annenberg for lunch on Nov. 20, I could not help noticing something puzzling about the Fish Filet On A Roll. No, it was not slithering off of the counter and attacking Dining Service personnel. Rather, the impudent filet challenged the oldest principles of mathematics by proclaiming that it obtained 102.1 percent of its calories from fat. In other words, there were more calories from fat than there were total calories in the food. Like some entertainment-industry "synergy" mergers, the part was greater than the sum of the wholes...
...assume that mathematics as we know it is still valid within Memorial Hall. We must look to alternate explanations for the phenomenon. Assistant Professor of Mathematics Mike J. Nakamaye, who teaches Math 25a: "Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra," has put forward one theory. "Measurements of fat content in Annenberg food undoubtedly rest on faulty linear approximation techniques," he said in an e-mail message. "To the extent that the food at Annenberg is everywhere homogeneous and nowhere differentiable, linear approximations are doomed to failure...
...typically at 32,000 ft., much higher than the Stratocruiser, a civilian version of the B-29 bomber. But those were not the numbers that intrigued Trippe. While he brilliantly exploited the glamour of his first jet-set passengers--celebrities and VIPs--he was calculating the new jet-age math of what we call in our business "bums on seats"--the seat-mile cost...