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...plot’s premise is fairly simple: Adam Godley, world-renowned Irish mathematician, is dying and his family has assembled at his country home to watch him go. It is no coincidence that Banville uses the name of Shakespeare’s magical forest for Godley’s estate—Arden— and the plot itself is soon complicated by the presence of the supernatural: Hermes, the Greek messenger of the gods, watches and narrates as the awfully-named Godleys eat, drink and live their mortal lives. Other gods also enjoy the human spectacle and occasionally...
...mathematical work deals with parallel universes—and it turns out that the entire book takes place in one. Sweden, we learn, is always on the warpath; Godley’s own fame comes from his success in cold fusion, a process which only works in his world. One begins to wonder at the potential truth of the grandiose statements that Adam turns over while lying in a coma. “My equations spanned a multitude of universes yet they posited a single world of unity and ultimate order,” he recalls...
Addressing a packed room of students and Cambridge locals at the Radcliffe Gymnasium last night, Levitt spoke about his path from opening week of his Harvard freshman year to becoming one of Time Magazine’s 100 People Who Shape Our World. He was the third of four speaker’s in the 2009-10 Dean’s Lecture Series, a program of the Radcliffe Institute’s Academic Engagement Programs...
...have no talent, you have no talent. If people like us are ever going to succeed in a profession, we have to find a topic that no body else in the world is willing to study, so you can be the best at it,” Levitt recalled his father telling...
...liquor”—but it seems more like a celebration of Ludacris’s manhood than a tribute to women. The album includes a remix of “My Chick Bad,” which Ludacris christens, “The Pussy Rules the World Version.” Though the song features three female rappers—Diamond, Trina, and Eve—it still affirms women only in regard to their superior sex skills, clothes, and bodies...