Word: euclid
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...recruiting, Tarkanian focuses on the kind of kid he was himself: hardworking, aggressive, looking for the main chance. Tarkanian was born to working-class Armenian parents in Euclid, Ohio. His father died when he was 12, and the family moved to Pasadena, Calif., in the 1940s. Tarkanian was already planning a coaching career as an undergraduate at Fresno State university, and began working with high school teams while earning a master's degree in education from University of Redlands. He moved up to Riverside City College as head coach in 1961, spent seven seasons at the community-college level, then...
History proceeds in gossip and fractals. Fractals are the mysterious and apparently irrational forms proposed by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who says that reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid and surprises that ridicule the idea of order. The shape of a mountain is not a cone. Clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, reputations, fame, the passage of history itself (think about the past ten months) -- all these are fractal shapes...