Word: theorems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since John Avildsen, who directed Rocky and The Karate Kid, is obviously not attracted to depressing subjects, you know up front that Lean on Me will lean heavily on Mailer's theorem in telling the Joe Clark story. The estimable Morgan Freeman plays the man who became the last-hope principal of crime- ridden, drug-soaked, graffiti-infested Eastside High in Paterson...
About 350 years ago, a French amateur mathematician named Pierre de Fermat scratched a devilishly tricky problem in the margin of a Greek mathematical text. Then he added, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof ((of the theorem)), which this margin is too small to contain." Did he really have the answer? The attempts of generations of scientists to find out have made Fermat's Last Theorem the El Dorado of math problems. Now, at long last, an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University seems to have broken the code. Last month at Bonn's Max Planck Institute, Yoichi Miyaoka...
Insiders like Putnam have been able to see that report. The availability of the work should be automatic, no questions asked. When a scientist reports on an experiment, or empirical conclusions, or a proof of a theorem, it is a standard of science that one is entitled to have the data on which the conclusions have been based, and a complete version of the paper. I wrote to the chairman of Class V to ask if he, or Class V, condones the failure to provide me with the material I requested from Huntington about his State Department Report...
...turn into a lemon or a leaf, bathed in sunlit air. Sixty years have done little to blunt the impact of the flat-out chromatic intensity of some Matisses from the 1920s, like Anemones in an Earthenware Vase, 1924. The structure of the painting is as lucid as a theorem, with its pattern of rectangular hangings, panels and tabletop and the surging diagonal of the flowers in the vase, but the color -- pinks, carmines, chromes, lilacs and an orange that glows like a red-hot cannonball laid casually on the table -- would be disorienting if the strict harmony Matisse somehow...
...tutors start out working through homework problems with the prisoner, but it's not unusual for the subject to stray from the Pythagorean theorem to something else, says Tina Vanasse '88, leader of the Billerica tutoring group. "Some prisoners are nervous at first. They don't swear and they're real careful about what they say," says Vanasse, a volunteer at Billerica since her freshman year...