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Actually, Fefferman has already had a reasonably long career as a mathematician. He began his studies in earnest at age nine: elementary math, he discovered, could not explain college physics. He started taking a few courses at the University of Maryland, near his home in Silver Spring, at twelve. He skipped high school and formally entered the university at 14, He wrote his first major paper at 15; Princeton awarded him a doctorate at 19. He taught there for a year before going to Chicago...
...appreciate the damage that this sort of sloppiness can do, it is useful to invoke the late Count Alfred Korzybski, inventor of general semantics. Korzybski was a Polish-born mathematician and physicist, part crank and part genius, who regarded his theory as a whole new science of life. Our language, argued Korzybski, does not reflect reality, and its structure does not correspond to the seen or unseen world. Its grammar, based on Aristotelian logic, implies primitive philosophical concepts tied to the prescientific past. All this leads to emotional disturbances and frustrations, known as semantic shock. Korzybski prescribed some mental tricks...
...ruinously high cost of running for political office in the U.S. tends to sabotage the democratic process. Polish-born Mathematician Martin Krakowski, a private consultant in Washington, has an idea that might not and exorbitant campaign spending but would at least keep every candidate nervously honest...
With a few exceptions, the record of the social forecasters is even more dismal than that of their brethren in the physical sciences. In 1784 the Marquis de Condorcet, a leading mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment, saw a placid present and looked forward to an even more placid future. "The great probability," he said, "is that we will have fewer great changes and fewer large revolutions to expect from the future than from the past. The prevailing spirit of moderation and peace seems to assure us that henceforth wars will be less frequent." Reverse everything and Condorcet would have...
...year-old mathematician has done fundamental research on numerous aspects of abstract algebra, including group and number theory and theory of group representation and modular characters...