Word: calculus
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...effort to make calculus more applicable to other fields, the Math Department is revamping its approach to calculus, stressing more graphics and fewer formulas when it comes to problem-solving...
Deborah J. Hughes Hallett, senior preceptor of the Math Department, said the switch is a reaction to growing concern among mathematicians that those who learn calculus no longer recognize its applications in other disclipines...
...blockade might eventually persuade Saddam to withdraw. In fact, Washington's bellicose talk last week, however discordant, was basically intended to enhance the blockade's impact. "In terms of shaping Saddam's calculus," says a State Department official, "what you're looking for is not economic deprivation that causes riots in the streets but rather a sense that the sanctions are gradually having effect, that they're not going to be loosened, that the international consensus in favor of them is strong. Then, projecting them out into the future, Saddam sees a point where they are going to affect...
Featured among the weekend events will be a keynote address by Jaime Escalante, the Hispanic calculus teacher whose life was chronicled in the movie "Stand and Deliver," said Joe Martinez '92, a Pachanga co-chair for organization...
Several years ago, when I was still an idealistic first-year, I set out with an evangelical fervor to debunk the cowtipping myth. After all, Harvard prides itself how students from diverse backgrounds learn so much from one other. Since I never spent a year teaching calculus to Tibetan peasants or did any groundbreaking research on snail mating, I figured my unique intellectual contribution would be in the area of livestock management...