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Ruth has astounded the faculty at St. Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says...
...marketing their drugs. Clinical trials can typically last for four or five years before regulators approve or reject their general use. But if in a few years their efforts are aiding those with crippling diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer, it will be testament to a well-known scientific theorem: sometimes you've gotta quit...
...pour into the first-period Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus class at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, N.J., seem remarkably alert. Maybe it's the influence of Victorina Wasmuth, their peppy, diminutive math teacher, who exudes a boundless enthusiasm as she introduces a lesson on Rolle's theorem and the extreme-value theorem, which, she explains, are key underpinnings of calculus. Wasmuth tosses out problems for her students to solve and then roves the room, examining their work. "You're all very smart!" she exclaims. "You're all capable of coming up with these theorems on your...
APRIL. "I don't mind," Alex Trebek tells E! "Ken and I are good friends." Ken's margins of victory narrow. Barely holds his own against two Caltech mathematicians, but his elegant proof of Von Stumpfnagel's theorem gives him a thrilling come-from-behind victory when both profs neglect to carry the 2. Page Six reports that Nicole Richie agreed to a quickie marriage with Charlie Rose in an effort to get Paris to come back to the show. Ratings...
...other great ones from Shaq, including “I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to,” when asked about visiting the Parthenon during his visit to Greece, and “My game is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer...