Word: math
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...that this cynical take required revision. In the midst of an involved foray into the thickets of semiotic schemata, the professor paused to question the class: Did we know that the French founder of structural anthropology was—remarkably—still alive? A rapid bout of mental math assuring us that this was in fact possible, the statement made quite an impact. In a sea of Saussures and Sartres, the mausoleum of dead white men that European intellectual history inevitably erects, the bespectacled ethnographer’s continued existence traced out an impressively unbroken line from the heyday...
...They tend to be really math-y and eccentric,” said Thiagarajan...
...physical shape. Body before mind,” he said. Neel described himself as an “aspiring rap artist,” before quickly taking it back. “Math is my passion,” he astutely said...
...isn’t math prodigies with buzzers facing off over trig identities, as the movies would have you think. The tournament consisted mainly of long tests—the General Test was 100 minutes long—that were taken individually and in groups...
After lunch, there were mini-events such as “Buzz,” “Rubik’s Cubes,” “DinoParmFish” and “Set,” which incorporated math in more creative ways. The tournament ended with the “Guts” round, which involved students running around and doing problems in groups of four...