Stuyvesant High School
Overview
Stuyvesant High School , commonly referred to as Stuy (ˈstaɪ), is a New York City public high school that specializes in mathematics
and science
. The school opened in 1904 on Manhattan
's East Side and moved to a new building in Battery Park City in 1992. Stuyvesant is noted for its strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates.
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
. The school opened in 1904 on Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
's East Side and moved to a new building in Battery Park City in 1992. Stuyvesant is noted for its strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates.
Quotations
Sing a song of atoms, a pocket full of bombsFour and twenty scientists in a Cyclotron.When they turned the switch on the men began to bawl.Wasn't that a pretty dish for David Lilienthal|David Lilienthal?
::—The Spectator, September 1961, on the cyclotron project
