Word: theorems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last fall, when a similar rumor travelled the academic grapevine, Leontief had no doubts that this time the prize was his. He was the only department member with a Russian name, and his widely used input-output theorem had long been considered worthy of the $120,000 cash prize...
...tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends the ball into seeming oblivion. The satisfaction of saving the ball from the "kamakazi drain" by giving just the right body English is far greater than finally figuring out Taylor's theorem...
...could see only half a page, half a word, half a letter. The ability to analyze was also gone. During a prolonged reschooling period, a simple statement like "An elephant is bigger than a fly" took hours of explaining before the relationship was understood. Grasping a basic geometry theorem meant up to two months of solitary "thinking," only to have the theorem forgotten days or even hours later...
Arrow developed the "Impossibility Theorem," which demonstrates in principle that no political system can perfectly reflect the wishes of the electorate. Using elementary mathematical techniques. Arrow first developed the theorem when he was a fledging assistant professor at Chicago two decades...
DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...