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Attention, first-years—-There is yet another reason to stay as far away as possible from Math 55: “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra.” It didn’t help Hugh M. Wolff ’75. The internationally renowned symphony conductor remembers his freshman-year initiation into the daunting world of Harvard math and science with some chagrin. “I took Physics 55 or something for physics majors and Math 50-something for math majors,” he laughs, saying he quickly realized he wasn?...
...prominent women astronomers discussed the obstacles they faced along their career path and how they overcame them in a panel sponsored yesterday by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Superiors often discouraged these women from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What...
...some of the most respected historiographers of the time. “The Century of Bach and Mozart” exhibits were created to open in conjunction with a conference by the same name, dedicated to Adams University Professor and arguably the most well-respected Bach scholar, Christoph Wolff. The conference took place Sep. 23-25, the same weekend that the exhibit opened. It featured papers by musicologists as well as live performances by the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, and pianist and Harvard Professor Robert Levin and his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang (both...
...second board member, Paul M. Wolff, resigned on Oct. 12 because he did not support the idea of giving Ladner any severance, according to the resignation statement that he sent to the other trustees that was obtained by the Post...
...Staff writer Alyssa N. Wolff can be reached at awolff@fas.harvard.edu...