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A triumph of classical filmmaking for a modern audience, “Adventures of a Mathematician” revisits the Manhattan Project through scientific, ethical and Jewish lenses. Forgotten your calculus? Simple geometry is more than sufficient to follow the triangular saga of Polish Jewish brainiac Stanislaw Ulam: from the cloistered classrooms of Harvard to Robert Oppenheimer’s atomic-bomb “startup” in dusty New Mexico back to Lvov, Poland (where his parents, sister and niece live in tenuous safety until the Nazis blast across the border). The 102-minute biographical drama is available for streaming Feb. 26-28 in the S.F.-based Jewish Film Institute’s annual WinterFest, which is virtual this year. ....
Snyder: From A Pointed Roof To Living Room Of Scientists - 7:20 am By Sharon Snyder Los Alamos Historical Society In the first three years of the Los Alamos Ranch School (LARS), the masters and boys all lived in a large, two-story log building known as the Big House. It contained rooms for students and masters, sleeping porches for the boys, a small library, classrooms, a kitchen and dining area, and a common room with a large fireplace. Perhaps with an eye to the future, LARS Director A.J. Connell had a square wooden structure built to the west of the Big House c.1920. The plain frame building couldn’t have been called aesthetic, but it offered quarters for two masters, each room with space for a desk and dresser and a bed on a sleeping porch. The new accommodations were soon referred to as the Pyramid, an appropriate name for a building with a four-sided pointed roof. The masters who moved into the Pyramid gained privacy but left b ....