SENTINEL WATCH August 8, 2005 Issue

'UNFATHOMABLE MIND IS EXPRESSED'

KIM SHIPPEY. SENIOR WRITER

"HOW WOULD WE EVER LEARN to do daring things like ski jumps or somersaults on a four-inch balance beam, or solve complex mathematical problems, if we didn't have youth on our side? As we become older, we become too sensible, and we don't allow ourselves to push the limits."

The speaker was Dr. David Ellwood, research director of the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has helped to establish "a global community of professional mathematicians who see no boundaries."

Ellwood was talking with me during a week-long academy for international high-school math students, arranged by the Institute last April. We were having dinner at an Indian restaurant with 16 of this year's "Junior Fellows," outstanding math proteges who had won places in this year's academy.

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