Yehuda Braunstein wasn\’t one of those kids whose childhood aspirations (to be a fireman, astronaut, actor) never came true. Even though he studied to be a mathematician at MIT and earned a doctorate at UC San Diego, and he also became religiously observant — a ba\’al teshuvah, through Chabad. Now, at 39, he\’s a mathematician, an active Chabad member — and a clown.
Dr. Robert W. Brooks, an interna-tionally renowned mathematician who made aliyah with his family from Los Angeles in 1995, died of a heart attack on Sept. 5, at the age of 49.
John Forbes Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose life is portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie, \”A Beautiful Mind,\” has denied allegations that he hates Jews, during a March 17 interview with Mike Wallace on \”60 Minutes.\”
A Caltech mathematician and a leading Orthodox educational institution teamed up recently to turn up the heat on a simmering controversy over what they say is a scientifically and religiously suspect tool used by Jewish outreach organizations — the Bible codes
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