Another staple of communism in Romania was very strong university training in physics and mathematics.
His name is Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University.
Given my background, it is not surprising that my favorite parts of the book have to do with physics and mathematics.
Computers use the laws of physics and mathematics to make predictions based on simulations of the atmosphere that are represented on a grid.
The 150, 000 applicants each year must first pass exams in chemistry, physics and mathematics before they can sit for a second set of grueling analytical tests.
Ongoing SDU activities include the development and maintenance of the award-winning "Enhance your Audience", or EyA. system, which webcasts all physics and mathematics lectures given through ICTP's Diploma Programme, as well as selected ICTP conferences and workshops.
They hire better-qualified teachers, and more of them, offering higher salaries to lure those with qualifications in difficult subjects such as physics, mathematics and foreign languages, and now have twice as many teachers per pupil as state schools do.
He has 12 honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982 and since 1979 has been at Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- a post once held by Isaac Newton.
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He explores the interface between maths and physics, concluding that mathematicians view string theory as physics and physicists regard it as mathematics.
He would go on to study mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne.
While India is producing huge numbers of mathematics, physics and chemistry graduates British numbers are falling, being replaced with soft subjects such as media studies.
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One of the rules of mathematics and physics, as I - a complete non-mathematician - read often in science books, is that when infinity is introduced into a scientific equation it no longer makes sense.
Its more than 400, 000 scrolls were the first systematic and serious collection of documentation on physics, literature, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, biology and engineering.
"Timbuktu in the 14th to the 16th century was an important university city where many manuscripts referring to knowledge of astronomy, economy, religion, mathematics, physics, and medicine were produced, " said Lazare Eloundou, chief of the Africa unit for UNESCO's World Heritage Center.
Do not expect students to know the basics of mathematics, chemistry and physics.
That's made this financial wizard, with degrees in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and acoustics, quite rich.
Biochemistry (No. 2), computer science (No. 3), applied mathematics (No. 10), mathematics (No. 11), physics (No. 14) and statistics (No. 15) majors are increasingly in demand and well-paid.
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