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...wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. Despite his mathematician's passion for precision and clarity, his literary taste runs to the richly convoluted prose of Proust. As a teacher, Debreu is known for jotting mathematical formulas in the upper left-hand corner of a blackboard at the beginning of a lecture and then gradually covering every bit of remaining space with symbols, until he ends up in the lower right-hand corner. His most striking qualities, says Stanford's Arrow, are "the quickness of his mind and the elegance of his thought...
...rivalry came to a head yesterday at an introductory meeting for Math concentrators as each development in the race was written on a blackboard...
...certain quality of the American '50s clings to Japan now, the '50s refracted through the Japanese glass. Terms like conformity recur. The problems of youth violence recall the American Blackboard Jungle. But some of the behavior seems essentially innocent. If Japan is afflicted by its new worries, it remains an extraordinarily successful society by almost every measure. The social muscle tone is firm, the civic climate earnest and naive. If it is true that the Japanese are somehow spiritually located now in the American '50s, are they doomed to endure the sequel, the cultural turmoil that arrived in the American...
...never got an F. His main problems during 16 school years were diagraming sentences in grade school and trying to take part in too many activities in high school. His diagraming difficulties came to an end when it was discovered he was so nearsighted he could not see the blackboard. He resolved his overscheduling dilemma in high school by choosing school plays over basketball...
...teaching varies widely from classroom to classroom throughout the country. Typical is the diversity within the Ecole Annexe de l'Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around the classroom and speak more freely. But virtually all emerge with a solid foundation in the basics...