Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide variety of projects that it may be impossible to get a report on the "effectiveness of the programs...in improving the educational attainment of educationally deprived children," as required by USOE rules for the states in the programs. Many of the Title I programs are remedial reading and math courses, Which it would be rather simple to evaluate, but other, more esoteric projects such as sending children on field trips to improve their reading readiness are difficult to evaluate, due to the multiplicity of factors affecting the children...
...called "Extraterrestrial Relays" for the magazine Wireless World. Heart of the piece was a detailed proposal for a synchronous communications satellite. Almost 20 years later, the device became a reality as Syncom 2. After the war, Clarke went to Kinks College in London, graduated with honors in physics and math, soon turned to writing full time...
...accepted by M.I.T. after scoring a perfect 800 in English and advanced-math achievement tests; instead of beginning that September, he decided to take a year's preparation at England's exclusive Winchester College. He spent his spare time studying M.I.T. textbooks, then took tests in virtually all of the university's freshman courses (including calculus, physics and chemistry), and passed them all. That permitted him to substitute more advanced courses in his first year at M.I.T...
...University of the Pacific, that concerned school officials gave him a battery of psychological tests, then decided to let him skip the sixth grade. His marks climbed, and he was jumped past the ninth and eleventh grades. He went to summer school, took eight semesters of Berkeley math and humanities courses by mail, graduated from high school...
...third semester, he stepped up the pace, took twelve courses instead of the usual four. By maintaining high course loads, he not only earned the required 360 credits for his math degree in just two years, but an extra 90 for a physics degree as well. And he did so without scheduling any classes before 11 a.m., so he could sleep late. Don will enter graduate study next fall at Oxford under Theoretical Mathematician Michael F. Atiyah. When math is really understood, Don says, "it becomes art, and you realize that you are seeing beauty...