Word: maths
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...57—"Secret World of" Alex Math has made a couple nice receptions to get the White squad down...
...Harvard is full of startlingly normal people who are as surprised to be here as you are. And, actually, there is a scientific reason for this. Dean William Fitzimmons explained that Harvard admits only about 300 people for purely academic reasons, the rare geniuses who rediscovered plutonium and finished Math 55 in high school. (One lived on my floor freshman year. At least, he was rumored to, but he never emerged during the daytime.) In addition to this are some people who excel early in specific fields. The rest of the class is made up of well-rounded, normal people...
Joan Fang ’11, an applied math concentrator currently enrolled in the course, said that lectures typically present a different aspect of the discipline each week—economics, finance, combinatorics...
Brenner’s new position will give him considerable liberty in proposing new staff, directing student advising, and assessing curricular standards within the school’s applied math program, according to Spaepen...
Brenner himself expressed enthusiasm for the prospect of centralizing his discipline on campus, noting, “The great thing about Applied Math at Harvard is that it exists everywhere...