Word: mathematicians
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Keen: An expression denoting expertise, experience, talent (e.g., He’s a keen mathematician...
...says he spent weeks helping Bergstein rewrite her script, penning the choice words that open the film. He also helped craft the role of a third love interest for Clayburgh’s character—a young male mathematician who he says was studiously modeled after his own mannerisms and attitudes. Sadly, Gross says his screen-doppelganger ended up on the cutting-room floor after filming...
Upon seeing an intriguing woman at a party back at Princeton, Gross says he introduced himself, only to be rebuked. As he soon learned, the woman was irked that a man, of all people, had been selected to advise on a film about a female mathematician...
...Charles Darwin's eccentric mathematician cousin Francis Galton who in 1874 ignited the nature-nurture controversy in its present form and coined the very phrase (borrowing the alliteration from Shakespeare, who had lifted it from an Elizabethan schoolmaster named Richard Mulcaster). Galton asserted that human personalities were born, not made by experience. At the same time, the philosopher William James argued that human beings have more instincts than animals, not fewer...
...mother was a mathematician,” she says with a laugh...