Math 55, the most difficult introductory math class offered at Harvard, is not known as a center of social activity. In a recent survey, fewer then forty percent of the students claimed to have engaged in a conversation with a fellow human being within the past three months. Yet on Tuesday afternoon, freshman Matt Logan ‘02 beat the odds when he became the first Math 55 student to engage in sexual intercourse.

Responses were mixed. According to Math 55 student Jeff Cartwright ‘02, “Let B be a nondegenerate bilinear form on a finite dimensional vector space V. An isotropic subspace W of V such that the restriction of B to W is zero.” Fellow freshman Ken McBean ’02 retorts, “A self-adjoint linear transformation T of a Hermitian inner product space V has at least one eigenvector.”

Logan is not the first Math 55 student to claim a loss of virginity. In 1978, Boris Green ‘82 turned heads across the globe when he announced at an emergency press conference that he had engaged in oral sex with a woman at a party. However, it was later revealed that Green was in fact only taking Math 1b. Thirteen years later, Math 55 student Rudolph Olson ‘95, famous for his proof that pi is a natural number, claimed to have had sex with his girlfriend Jane. Further investigation found Jane to be a linear algebra textbook. Nevertheless, there appears to be strong empirical evidence that Logan did indeed have sexual intercourse with a woman on Tuesday.

Despite these shocking reports, the Math Department is unfazed. Clifford Taubes, director of Undergraduate Studies, announced this morning that Logan would receive the Putman, the most prestigious collegiate-level award in mathematics. Logan is also in consideration for the Fields Medal, but he has strong competition from Raminov Wangley, a Polish mathematician who claims to have had sex with three of his students.

While Logan has gained respect worldwide, Melanie Lipman ‘99, Logan’s sexual partner and a History and Literature concentrator, is unimpressed. “I took off all my clothes and he just stood there confused. But after I drew a diagram, he seemed to figure out what to do,” she said. Nevertheless, her overall experience was unsatisfying. “I try to be open-minded, but some of his eccentricities are a little hard to accept. Like when he made me put on a fake beard and dress up like Gottfried Leibnitz,” Lipman complained. Logan could not be reached for comment.