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...Math Myth...
...says a woman can't be Einstein?" was invaluably informative about the scientific research and sociological theories concerning women in math and science [March 7]. As a woman university student, I am continually saddened by the negative attitudes that persist in academia about women's aptitude in those fields. As suggested in your article, the educational system--not biology--is to blame for any discrepancy between the achievements of men and those of women. Given the right training and encouragement at an early age, women can, without a doubt, equal men in math, science and engineering--just as they have...
...enough bashing Wolfowitz. If the Bush administration can’t find a better justification for Wolfowitz’s nomination, I’ll give them one: he majored in Math at Cornell and has a graduate degree in political science. Economics is kind of, sort of (not really) but marginally like political science with math, right? With all this to his credit, he’s practically overqualified for the position. Maybe his skills would be better used somewhere else...
...first time he can remember, India's richest film-maker is having trouble with his math. Specifically, how 600,000 goes into 175. The first figure is the population of Dharavi, Asia's most populous slum, which he's currently exploring. The second is the number of hectares Dharavi covers in Bombay, an area half the size of New York City's Central Park. In a different life, Shekhar Kapur spent seven years crunching numbers as a corporate planner for a multinational oil company. He surveys the tiny one-room lean-tos where teeming families live shoulder to shoulder...
Andover junior Gabe Worgaftik has discovered the secret to getting into Harvard, and it’s not Model UN, math team, a 1600, or any permutation of said activities. It’s Spam...