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...Harvard mathematician has accused The New Yorker, a magazine famed for its meticulous fact-checking, of defaming him in a recent article...
Yau’s challenge to The New Yorker is particularly bold because of Nasar’s international acclaim—she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her 1998 book “A Beautiful Mind,” which later became an Oscar-winning film...
...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
...strip club in Paris? If you answered yes to these questions, then you will probably win a Hoopes prize. If not, you can always use your thesis as a doorstop. Meanwhile, just hobnobbing with the department’s gliteratti is autograph request-inducing, though, and includes New Yorker writers Jill Lepore and Larry Summers’ pal Louis Menand. Ask, and they may even advise your thesis.History and Literature is a program that is truly unique to Harvard, and is arguably the most personalized, student-oriented program here. There are no graduate students in Hist and Lit, which means...
...spirit that should animate more Core offerings. The downside: be prepared to work your way through several tests and papers. The upside: if you skip a lecture or ten, it’s no biggie—it’s probably based on a much shorter New Yorker article Menand’s wrote anyway...