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...York City.A self-confessed introvert who majored in mathematics as an undergraduate, Conrad explained that he wanted to emphasize his relationship with Smith, who helped draw out the filmmaker’s budding artistic vision. “I was coming out of this cocoon of having been a math nerd into a scene where I found myself actually standing in front of a vase of flowers in a dress with Jack ripping it down my back,” he said.Despite the embarrassment he felt at the time, Conrad said that he found this experience rewarding...
...changed. Clever lyrics and male-female vocal interplay borrowed from the likes of Belle and Sebastian and the New Pornographers form the backbone of most songs. Rarely is this better shown than on the old song “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s).” The song’s oblique lyrics are shouted out at maximum intensity: “You know that we could sell you magazines / If only you could give your life to literature / Just don’t read ‘Jane Eyre...
...since immigration. National exams taken at age 16—the General Certificate of Secondary Education—show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children are well below the 40 percent mean of British children gaining 5 or more passing grades (C or higher in any subjects including English and Math), considered by the government to be a standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood’s research, over 40 percent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths today still have no educational qualifications. In fact, the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have some of the lowest educational qualifications among all immigrant...
...voracious consumer of puzzles and a brilliant mathematician, University of California professor David Gale was so passionate about math that he dreamed of creating an interactive museum dedicated to the subject. But he is best known for the matching algorithm he created with colleague Lloyd Shapley that was first applied to romantic pairs: an elegant method to determine couples in which both partners prefer each other to other members of a group. Among several applications, the algorithm has since been used to match students to high schools and helped establish the protocol still used to assign new doctors to hospital...
...Hillary group's plan worked out, however. The Clinton team held fast, and even though the Obamaphiles had almost two-thirds of the delegation, each side got one delegate, with Obama winning the two alternates. "The math is the math," said Tanya Quinn, 48, a self-employed graphic artist, the winning Clinton delegate and precinct team leader. "I was given my task and we did it. Hillary is all about solutions, and we had the solution...