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Despite official ostracism (he was not part of the math department, per se). Bernstein was able to gain a reputation-especially in the West-as one of the top young Soviet pure mathematicians. As Harvard Math Department Chairman David B. Mumford relates it, Bernstein was a student of a Russian mathematicians named I.M. Gelfand, who runs a series of weekly seminars world famous in advanced math circles. Bernstein, like Gelfand's other students, developed a broad facility that ranges "over almost the whole of mathematics," according to Mumford. That breadth-the likes of which is seldom seen in the West...
...victory was the 11th time a Harvard team has captured the competition. "Harvard would have won almost every year except that we have always picked the wrong three people to represent us," said David B. Mumford, Higgins Professor of Mathematics, yesterday...
...Concentrators going straight from Math 55 to the 200-level courses--jumping directly into the abstraction--seemed to as a screwy way to do things," said Department Chairman David B. Mumford '57, a member of the eight-man committee...
...problem the revision seeks to address in the accessibility and applicability of math courses to the intermediate level. Also Math "55, Advanced Calculus," would become Math 25. "Honors Intermediate Calculus and Linear Algebra," Which would have "the rigor without the abstraction, matching the preparation of students much better, explained Mumford...
...possible change is to make the first half of the Math 213 sequence ("Functions of a Complex Variable") a 100-level course, Mumford said...