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Professor finds complex mathematics theorem can be proved more simply
Fermat's Last Theorem was unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford Mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. Case Western Reserve University's Colin McLarty has shown the theorem can be proved more simply.
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Inamori Center Director interviewed on friendship and ethics among opposing soldiers
People love to hear war stories about great generals or crack troops such as Seal Team 6, the Navy unit that killed Osama bin Laden. But there is another side of war that's seldom explored: Why do some soldiers risk their lives to save their enemies and, in some cases, develop a deep bond with them that outlives war? And are such acts of chivalry obsolete in an age of drone strikes and terrorism?
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Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics in the Department of Philosophy,
will deliver a plenary talk at the 10th annual international joint meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics and the International Association of Environmental Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom on June 13. He will deliver the talk by Skype in order to avoid a long-haul flight carbon footprint. The conference's theme is "Thinking and Acting Ecologically."
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