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/PRNewswire/ -- Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown brings the imaginative design, consummate draftsmanship, and dreamy visions of the renowned M.C. Escher to...

PELLA, IOWA (March 27, 2023) — Russell Goodman, professor of mathematics at Central College, presented research revealing the theoretical lowest percentage of the popular vote that a presidential candidate would need to win a presidential election.At the Neumann University Colloquium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Goodman remotely presented "Narrow Margins: Winning the

When the world came down from the magic mountain

The Martians of Budapest”, sometimes referred to as simply “The Martians” is a colloquial term used to describe a group of prominent Hungarian physicists and mathematicians who emigrated to the United States following the Great Purge of 1933. The term refers to—what appeared, from the perspective of Americans—to be a group of men with superhuman intellects, arriving from an obscure country speaking an incomprehensible foreign language and English with strong, characteristic accents (la...

Dr. James Edward Calvert Jr. passed away Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, after a full life as a teacher, political activist, outdoorsman, craftsman and beloved father and husband.