Word: maths
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...Math...
...brought a lot of stuff with me to Harvard. I figured I would need all of my high school math and science books. I took a gumball machine for its obvious practicality, and I packed way more clothing than could fit in the standard dressers...
...Math 55 permanently disabused me of the idea of becoming a mathematician,” Shleifer says. Though he would tough the class out and remain a math major, he says he became drawn to economics—a subject he knew nothing of in high school—after taking some introductory courses in the field...
Even though DeLong would eventually choose social studies as his major, he joined Shleifer in Math 55—a class the math department still calls “probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country.” DeLong’s secondary preparation came through for him again, and he credits this with impressing Shleifer favorably enough that they have continued to collaborate over the years...
...first quarter of the course in high school the previous year,” DeLong said in a toast when Shleifer won the Clark Medal in 1999. “So for the first quarter of the year, conversations about math between me and Andrei would end with me remembering something from the previous year, saying ‘How about if we do it this way?’ and finding out that it worked...