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...Beranbaum even asserts that the new sugars can help simplify the art of baking because they add spectacular flavor without requiring complex skills. "For me," marvels Beranbaum, "finding these sugars is like being an astronomer who has discovered a new planet or a mathematician who has solved a new theorem." It's that sweet...
...packed Sanders Theatre of freshmen hanging on his every word, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic advisors strikes fear in the hearts of men. A lone sophomore among the ’09ers, each of them one rhetorical flourish away from disproving at least one major theorem, Mankiw’s axioms inspire me against my will. “Economics… will help you understand the world in which you live,” according to the class textbook, and “make you a more astute participant in the economy...
...discovered in 1975 and which is much too complicated to explain here. (Chaitin's book Meta Math! The Quest for Omega, out this month, should help make omega clear.) Suffice it to say that the concept broadens two major discoveries of 20th century math: Gdel's incompleteness theorem, which says there will always be unprovable statements in any system of math, and Turing's halting problem, which says it's impossible to predict in advance whether a particular computer calculation can ever be finished...
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...