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...Noam D. Elkies, professor of mathematics and Chess Club faculty adviser, won the 1996 world championship for solving chess problems—but has lost to the Chessmaster...
...revolutionary theory (hence the name), in keeping with the tenets of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, whose members comprise its staff. But when it comes to stocking the shelves, the store’s managers seem to be seeking a diversity of views, from the left (Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky) to the far left. You can’t get far into the store without running across the polemical prose of Bob Avakian, chairman of “The Party,” as members call the organization. Chairman Avakian is also one of the most frequent contributors...
...arts are flourishing at Harvard; and not where one might readily think. Far from the departments of music and Visual and Environmental Sciences, another artistic culture is thriving-—in the fields of psychology, government, and mathematics. Professors Steven Pinker, Andrea L. Campbell, Noam D. Elkies, Benedict H. Gross, and John D. Boller have breached the boundaries of their respective fields to dabble in music and the fine and dramatic arts...
Mathematics professor Noam D. Elkies has been playing and composing music for the piano since the age of three. His mother, a piano teacher, introduced him to music at a young age. He says, “I started playing at three and putting notes on paper shortly after.” Professor Elkies attributes his early interest in music to mathematics, citing the numbers listed above the notes in a beginner’s music book (the numbers indicate which fingers to use). He composed his first piece at the age of six and still plays it to this...
...where Bush and his Cabinet are portrayed as masked, jabbering clowns, and every joke is greeted with gales of supportive laughter. And for a chewier take on the subject, there's David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre, where lobby vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking to work as both entertainment and propaganda. But where Embedded is a sloppy, two-dimensional piece of agitprop, Hare's show is more diplomatic, and dramatizes...