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Such efficiency soon made V. the premier mathematician in the County of L He occupied a prestigious university chair. Research foundations competed to give him grants. He was appointed consultant to the National Bureau of Statistical Analysis. What more could a figure-freak want...
...really a political deviationist being brainwashed by Big Brother, or is he a monomaniac who only thinks he is a mathematician and only supposes he is being persecuted? Or is V. perhaps a gifted psychiatrist pretending to be a monomaniac who role-plays as a mathematician...
Ominous Charge. Over berry juice and a homemade fruitcake, Solzhenitsyn complained that, among other things, he was continually being spied upon, that his visitors were harassed and intimidated, and that his wife had been fired from her post as a mathematician at the Institute of the International Workers Movement. He also declared that his efforts to collect research for a new book called October 1916 were handicapped by officials. "You Westerners cannot imagine my situation," he said. "I live in my own country; I write a novel about Russia. But it is as hard for me to gather material...
Incredible Geology. Touchdown will take place on an undulating mountain-ringed plain near the large crater Descartes (named in honor of the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician). The region is farther south of the lunar equator and at a higher elevation than any earlier landing site (about 8,000 ft. above Apollo 11 's Tranquility Base, 150 miles to the northeast). Far more significant is the geological diversity of the landing area. It may contain three basically different types of material: 1) original crustal rock dating back to the moon's birth some 4.6 billion years...
...strong parent. Her father, a buccaneering oil wildcatter from Texas, taught her that, as she recalls, "being an entrepreneur is the only way to fly." He gave her a man's name and directed her to a career. Shortly out of college, she married a Rand Corp. mathematician. In the mid-1960s, the Babcocks saw that the computer software market was blossoming, and they started a service that allowed companies to share a highspeed computer by transmitting data over telephone lines. While Michael Babcock plotted the financing and marketing strategy, her husband directed the computer technology. But she increasingly...