Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Architectural Sciences Department, acting in good faith, has promised to adjust its concentration requirements towards those of the new major. For example, under certain circumstances the department will grant permission to substitute its math and physics requirement with courses from the much wider list of Visual Studies required and optional related courses. Also all Vis Stud courses will be equally open to Arch Sci concentrators next year. It is important that the old department let its concentrators make their programs of study as much like those of the new department as possible...
Only One Couple. The logic of it all seemed overwhelming, and few disciplines pay as much homage to logic as do the law and math. But neither works right with the wrong premises. Hearing an appeal of Malcolm Collins' conviction, the California Supreme Court recently turned up some serious defects, including the fact that not even the odds were all they seemed...
Improbable Probability. To explain why, Judge Raymond Sullivan attached a four-page appendix to his opinion that carried the necessary math far beyond the relatively simple formula of probability. Judge Sullivan was willing to assume it was unlikely that such a couple as the one described existed. But since such a couple did exist-and the Collinses demonstrably did exist-there was a perfectly acceptable mathematical formula for determining the probability that another such couple existed. Using the formula and the prosecution's figure of 12 million, the judge demonstrated to his own satisfaction and that of five concurring...
...Math as Well as Skill. It was not the first time that Rule No. 38 caused a golfer grief: Hawaii's Jackie Pung actually won the 1957 Women's Open, but was disqualified because her card showed a lower score for one hole than she had actually shot (although the total on the card was correct). Nor will last week's incident be the last-unless something is done about changing a rule that requires a golfer to test his math as well as his skill under the stress of competition, and penalizes mistakes without regard...
...small town was further chaffed by the Updikes' poverty. When John was 13, his family had to move to his grandparents' 90-acre farm ten miles away where John's father, Wesley, now 68 supported the five of them on his junior-high-school math teacher's pay of $1,740 a year. That sum did not provide for indoor plumbing, and John and his father bathed at school. It was not until twelve years ago that water was brought into the two-bedroom farmhouse. "Every time I take a bath I can't believe...