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...first two [parts of the paper] constitute the ‘expository’ part of my paper: the mathematics was known before, and my contribution was only to write about them in a manner that the readers of this journal (typically at or above the level of math majors at an average American college) would find comprehensible and appealing,” Elkies wrote. “The third is also ‘research,’ in that this connection of Fourier series with up-down permutations and the Euler formulas was not known before...
Silas Xu ’05, an applied math concentrator in Cabot House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. For the remaining summer and during the fall, he is studying and researching in Paris, where calling mummy could not be easier—cell phone signals abound, even in the metro system...
About once per week, students receive special programming, like the “Olympics” athletic competition or the “math trails” scavenger hunt through Cambridge...
...celebrity for his unique stamps, says, "It's really a performance-art type of thing. You put this thing out there, and other people come and experience it." Although some instructions offer fairly straightforward directions, puzzle addicts love the challenge of solving and creating clues replete with clever puns, math formulas and other riddles. Some of them can take weeks or even months to solve (one consists solely of lyrics to songs by the Barenaked Ladies, the Violent Femmes and the Call...
...militance, which the country's Muslims have worked to allay. "If there are any [militant] forces, they don't need the cover of a mosque," says Vladimír Sánka, chairman of the Center of Muslim Communities in the Czech Republic. Milos Kejzlar, the 41-year-old math teacher leading the petition drive in Teplice, remains unconvinced. "We worry that the presence of [mosques] will increase security risk the way it did in Germany, France or Britain," he says. "I consider myself a tolerant man, but I don't want to tolerate things like this." Backers...