Word: mathematicians
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Some of the losers wind up at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. Its population has included an Egyptian mathematician, a scholar from Hong Kong and a retired Israeli brigadier general who was a well-to-do appliance distributor in Jerusalem. William Southrey, the mission's director of ministries, once picked up a hitchhiker who turned out to be his old high school teacher and coach...
...mathematics, apprenticeship methods focus less on formulas than on analyzing the way a mathematician chooses a path to a solution. The technique is valid for higher math as well as basic arithmetic. In East Lansing, Mich., Magdalene Lampert's fifth-graders connect numbers to real-world situations. Instead of dutifully working out common denominators to compare fractions, for example, one of her students reasoned that "five-sixths is smaller than seven-eighths because the piece that is missing in seven-eighths is smaller than in five-sixths." Says Lampert: "This reveals more complicated thinking and a better understanding of symbols...
INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July...
INIGO JONES: COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, Drawing Center, New York City. Designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian, Jones (1573-1652) was the greatest royal architect England ever produced. This impeccable show reveals the technical and pictorial skill with which he led English architecture into a new, classically based grandeur and amplitude. Through July...
...except by name he is not a well-known genius in America, since he built nothing outside England and no attempt, until now, has been made to gather a full exhibition of his drawings. But he was the great English all- rounder of the 17th century: designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian...