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...this is a good thing, right? Striving people come here to succeed--and do. While there are plenty of benefits that undeniably come with learning the ways of ambition, there are plenty of perils too--many a lot uglier than high school students cheating on the trig final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...rational numbers 1/8, 1/32, 1/96, 5/1536...that occur on the right-hand sides of these formulas are remarkably ubiquitous in mathematics and the mathematical sciences: they pop up in contexts ranging from power series for trig functions, to black-body radiation in physics, to abstruse mathematical disciplines such as K-theory and homotopy groups,” Elkies wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elkies Wins Ford Math Award | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

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