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...readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark corners of paranormal science to reveal a phalanx of sleight...
...Ruth is a woman governed by chance the way I am, I don't tell her that she is a vagabond, and part of my matrix of futures that will never come true, part of my fall. When we say goodbye and she is gone, the future I created from her goes with her; there is nothing to replace it. When I knew where I was going our shared past was something tangible. Our two futures are an illusion now and they overshadow our presents...
Cambridge is a more interesting place to live in than Hanover. That point, plus three more for the superior music the Harvard band plays, reveals a determinant matrix showing Harvard with an 18-12 lead...
There can hardly have been two distant cities whose fate was, for good and ill, more intimately linked than Venice and Constantinople. Soon after the Emperor Constantino the Great established his new Christian Rome by the Bosporus in 334 A.D., Constantinople, the fabled golden city of Byzantium, became the matrix of European civilization. During Constantinople's rise, Rome was a tract of ruins and Venice only a cluster of wattle huts on a lagoon mudbank...
...characteristic down-to-earth manner, Leontief likens his complex input-output matrix to a cookbook recipe: "You add a little bit of these production factors, and you get a little bit of those...