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Cezanne admired the Impressionists, especially Pissarro and Renoir, and derived inspiration from them; it is hardly possible to imagine his landscapes of the 1870s without their quantum of Impressionist freshness. But the whole thrust of his work is about something other than the delight in the fleeting moment, the "effect" of light, color and atmosphere, to which Impressionism was dedicated. Underneath the delectable surface was structure, like reefs and rocks beneath a smiling sea, and that was what Cezanne sought and obsessively analyzed--the bones and masses of the world. His famous remark about seeking in nature "the cylinder...
Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science Arthur Jaffe, a noted researcher in the field of quantum theory, gauge theory and other areas at the interface of math and physics, has been elected to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society...
...wouldn't be Harvard, I suppose, if the administration conformed to the dining services of other colleges and allowed its students to determine for themselves how they wanted to divvy up their money when it came to food. We can discover new theories about quantum physics, become Nobel laureates and even be presidents of the United States, but we aren't smart enough to decide what we want...
Well, almost every investor. Last year Steinhardt hit a speed bump, as did most other big hedge funds like George Soros' Quantum Group and Julian Robertson's Tiger Management. Neither however, suffered as badly as Steinhardt's funds, which lost 29% of their value during 1994, owing largely to the plummeting price of European bonds, in which Steinhardt had invested heavily. Says he: "I made a vast amount of money in 1993 on the same bet. Nevertheless, the pain in 1994 was far greater than the pleasure...
...particular, Ehrenreich notes that his course, Science A-16: "Relativity and Quantum Physics," typically has 50 students, while the Physics 11 series, "Mechanics" and "Electricity, Magnetism and Waves," typically draws 200 to 250 students...