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Sunday, June 27, 2004 Categories of knowing Unknown unknowns: a five year old child does not know that he does not know calculus. For him or her, calculus is an `unknown unknown'. Known unknowns: an older child know he that he does not know calculus. For him or her, calculus is a `known unknown'. Unknown knowns: a ...
23 Hilbert's Problems At the second International Congress of Mathematicians which was held in Paris in 1900, Hilbert posed 23 questions to the world mathematicians to solve in the next century. Some of them were general, such as the axiomatisation of physics (see on Euclid's elements and find out what axioms, and axi...
There is a very good reason why e i and pi are related in such a way. It lets me know why it is convoluted. It is my decision that the form of matrix math must be ABCx=d instead of Ax=b and this is to remove the ambiguity of e and i and pi. I have heard it said that i or j as the imaginaries should not be used as it hi...
Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to Golden Section & Other Secrets (New) Description A large portion of mathematics history comes to us directly from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Notably, most mathematics history books ...
Posts I'm not a big fan of these various math tricks (such as how to multiply any two numbers between 11 and 19 or how to square some special numbers ending in certain digits) unless they increase students' understanding of the number system or math principles. Often they're just another thing to memorize that fades a...
Two middle school students in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province managed to transform dull functions into beautiful figures, depicting hearts, apples and even a little girl with pigtails, according to Zhengzhou Evening Post. Their math teacher, Yan Lina, was surprised when two of her students created a heart-sh...
The study of fractals has recently become a hot topic. Fractals can model real world phenomena such as coastlines, trees, and crystals. In this discussion, we will focus on some of the most basic ideas of two dimensional fractals. Affine Transformations So far our transformations have all been linear transformations....
Learn from a vibrant community of students and enthusiasts, including olympiad champions, researchers, and professionals. Fallacies in mathematics Mathematicians can be wrong at times and and sometimes this errors lead to interesting results.And sometimes is some intentional effort to find foolproof solutions and rea...
Georg Cantor A Genius Out of Time&nbspTerm Paper Excerpt from Term Paper : Georg Cantor: A Genius Out of Time If you open a textbook, in high school or college, in the first chapter you will be introduced to set theory and the theories of finite numbers, infinite numbers, and irrational numbers. The development of m...
Meta Math Another of my favourite functions if the Gamma function, , the continuous generalization of the factorial. While it grows rapidly for positive reals, it has fun poles for the negative integers and is generally complex. What happens when you iterate it? First I started by just applying it to different start...
Pythagoras (572-492BC), a student of Thales, is now one ofthe most famous mathematicians of all time. According to David E. Smith. "Pythagoras said have discovered the fifth and the octave of anote that can be produced on the same string by stopping at 2/3 and 1/2 of its length, respectively." He based his metaphysic a...
It occurred to Albert Einstein that gravity could be modeled as a geometric phenomenon. Instead of saying that a particle was deflected from a straight trajectory by the force of gravity, one might say that that gravity affects space and time in such a way as to alter the notion of what a straight trajectory is. To thi...
Thursday, July 12, 2012 Fortune Favors the Brave: Eratosthenes and the Circumference of the Earth One of the most persistent myths is the belief that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in order to prove that the earth was round. In fact, learned people had known this for several centuries before he was born...
Engaging students: Introducing the number e Nada Al-Ghussain. Her topic, from Precalculus: introducing the number e. How can this topic be used in your students' future courses in mathematics or science? Not every student loves math, but almost all students use math in his or her advanced courses. Students in microbi...
Yesterday, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society met in St Andrews. Thomas Jordan gave a talk on multifractal analysis. I had no idea what this was, and went along without too much expectation of being enlightened. But Thomas began with a well-chosen example (dating from before the term "multifractal analysis" was invente...
Mathematician pair find prime numbers aren't as random as thought (Phys.org)—A pair of mathematicians with Stanford University has found that the distribution of the last digit of prime numbers are not as random as has been thought, which suggests prime's themselves are not. In their paper uploaded to the preprint ser...
Numinations — January, 1999 Millenium! Let's Numinate about next New Year's Eve. Virtually everyone will celebrate the new millenium when all those zeros are about to roll into view. That is, on the 31st of December, 1999. There may be a few purists who will celebrate the new millenium a whole year later, and I will ...
You are here John Tynan — Mathematics Every class that Dr. John Tynan teaches starts the same way: with a joke. "Mondays are OK jokes, Wednesdays are bad joke days and Fridays are good joke days," he says. "The students in Tuesday-Thursday classes are lucky because they get to skip bad joke day." Dr. Tynan is perso...
The tradition of honoring Martin Gardner continues with this edited collection of articles by those who have been inspired by Gardner to enter mathematics, to enter magic, to bring magic into their mathematics, or to bring mathematics into their magic. Contributing authors include world-leading... Polls are conducted ...
Essay on relation and uses of maths in other subjects The nature of mathematics: its role and its other conceptions of the subject define mathematics as a static one constructs the relations inherent in. Shapes and numbers and their relationships with each other importance and uses category: essays mathematics is an i...
Letters to A Young Mathematician Leading research mathematician Ian Stewart offers insights into mathematics for aspiring student mathematicians. Describes the importance and beauty of mathematics, the relationship between logic and proof, and the peculiarities of the mathematical community.
Toothpaste, Custard and Chocolate: Maths gets messy Abstract This talk will look at mathematical modelling of real, complex fluids in flow situations – some with serious commercial applications, and some just for fun. We'll spend most of the time looking at the chocolate fountain. We'll experience one of the key day-...
"A Mathemusician's Journey" – A Talk by Dr. Sudeshna Basu Math and music are usually organized into two separate categories, without obvious overlap. It tends to be that people are good at math and science or art and music, as if the two elements could not be placed together logically. In actuality, math and music are...
Geometric solid(s) – The cube and its division CHAPTER "C" FOR KIDS Geometric solid(s) – The cube and its division In this Chapter we will get acquainted with the construction of the CUBE in the ancient way with a compass and an unmarked straightedge. This solid is the element that is, or should be, the fundament of...
1 00:00:04,38 --> 00:00:15,49 Right. Yeah well origami has a surprisingly rich mathematics and geometry to it. 2 00:00:16,78 --> 00:00:23,07 It's I originally got interested in origami because it just posed a lot of interesting mathematical questions you have 3 00:00:23,07 --> 00:00:27,64 this sheet of material and you...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 Life Is Math I'll go even deeper: the best comedy works because it's mathematically sound. As any comedian will tell you, comedy is all about timing... and timing is math. Sure, relatability is the humane filter that determines whether or not we develop an emotional response to something (lik...
Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations Overview Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, b...
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics is an universal language. It is also known as language of science.Developing interest towards maths depends on your industry in the initial stages and later on your intelligence. It is one of the few subjects, wherein you can score hundred percent marks to enhance your overall perc...
Briony Thomas Lecturer in Design Theory, School of Design, University of Leeds, UK "After studying the geometry of repeating patterns as a student of textile design, I became interested in the possibilities of patterns repeating in three-dimensions, around the faces of mathematical solids. This interest led to an inv...
Beauties This is a collection of mathematical results that I consider as gems based on their beauty and elegance alone. Neither the depth nor the width of its application is criteria for consideration in my collection. It is only the beauty that matters here. Hence the title 'Mathematical Gems. Again as they say, beau...
Today From Bedtime Math: Trevi Treasure Trove The Trevi Fountain in Rome, a giant statue of marble men and horses swimming in rushing water, is the biggest fountain in the famous city. This isn't just a little angel statue: the fountain stretches 161 feet across and stands 86 feet tall! The legend is that people who t...
Computational mathematics A black and white rendition of the Yale Babylonian Collection's Tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BCE), showing a Babylonian approximation to the square root of 2 (1 24 51 10 w: sexagesimal) in the context of Pythagoras' Theorem for an isosceles triangle. The tablet also gives an example where on...
This old diagram could serve as a spinner for allowing luck to determine how much ice cream to serve oneself. It's from a wholly different context: Raising P. V. Squabs for Profit by John S. Trecartin, 1920.
5. Do some independent research on fractals: where they occur in nature, how fractals are used in the movies, how are they used in the stock market, how are fractals connected to chaos. 6. Check out Bob Devaney's (NCTM speaker) page 7. Make a fractal card from Shephali chokshi-Fox (NCTM speaker)
From early in life, humans have access to an approximate number system (ANS) that supports an intuitive sense of numerical quantity. Previous work in both children and adults suggests that individual differences in the precision of ANS representations correlate with symbolic math performance. However, this work has bee...
Data science and programming Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:29:39 +0000enhourly1 science and programming Bayes' Theorem is the FizzBuzz of Data Science 20 Dec 2017 12:00:53 +0000 other day, I did a technical interview that involved applying Bayes' Theorem to a simple example. It stumped me. And it left me feeling empathy for fol...
Study Tips Learning Physics The Nature of Physics In the evolution of western, scientific human thought the step out of the "ocean" onto the "shore" was the very revolutionary idea that we should seek some sort of understanding of phenomena by looking at the numbers generated by (freely designed) measuring devices. ...
This Mind-Boggling Map Explains How Everything in Mathematics Is Connected Advertisement Unless you were a total pro at mathematics in high school, you probably only have a vague recollection of things like geometry, algebra, and some guy called Isosceles (what a great name) and that sucks, because mathematics is one...
The Meaning Of Numbers: 5 / Numerology | Andrea's Number In this video, I explain the meaning of the number 5. Footage was taken in Times Square, New York City several years ago when I was a travelling person
How Does A Calculator Work? In religion we hear a lot about faith. I've seen it described as "belief without evidence." Something that is difficult to comprehend, or explain, but we have complete trust. It is as if we are saying, we are not sure how it works, but we don't doubt that it works. This is kind of how I wo...
Why would anyone investigate your hallucination? It would cost money and we have no reason to think it would tell them anything they didn't know. Also, once again, you are ignoring the fact that the experiment has been done. It showed that pi was constant. A fixed number for a pi is boring. Variable number to pi, it i...
Search Number (Mathematics) ID: 314750 GUID: - Type: SUBJECT Version: 23 Version date: 2013-01-21 Status: DRAFT Owner: IFD-Nederland Names en-IN Number (Mathematics) nl-NL Getal (Wiskunde) Description Interaction Properties References Number A number is a mathematical object used to count, labe...
You'll Need Directions Read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi with your kids. We found a copy at our local library. It's not only a great story, it's a clever way to help kids understand Pi. In the story, Sir Cumference drinks a potion that accidentally turns him into a dragon. His son, Radius, must find a cure. Al...
The geometry of weird-shaped dice skullsinthestars 10 months ago Advertisements I've been enjoying a bit of reminiscing about my childhood lately, hunting down old copies of role-playing games I enjoyed in my youth as well as exploring newer games that have come out since then. One thing that has changed dramatical...
dace.co.uk : mathematics : The Quadratic equation formula of Al Khwarizmi Why, when the original proof (which I shall reveal to you) is simple and beautiful, are schoolchildren expected to take an important piece of mathematics on trust? I mean, the formula enabling the solution of equations in x² (x-squared) of the ...
Site Search Navigation Site Navigation Site Mobile Navigation Dan Asimov: The Bongles of Bingle-Bangle By Gary Antonick April 27, 2015 12:00 pmApril 27, 2015 12:00 pm Photo Bangles by Oscar and Nancy.Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Our puzzle this week is an original by Dan Asimov, a mathematician and co...
ten Ten is the base of our familiar number system, which stems directly from the fact that we have ten fingers on which to count. Ten is the only triangular number that is a sum of consecutive odd squares (10 = 12 + 32) and the only composite integer such that all of its positive integer divisors other than 1 are of t...
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Interesting. Actual maths ability in a pure sense is, nowadays, considered less important than ability to do well in exams. For which a good memory and ability to work at high speed and to "follow recipes" and jump through hoops, are needed. Problem-solving capacity is very much neglected. Which is sad, because this is...
Menu Beautiful and Useful Digests Abel ("Nobel") Prize for Fermat's Last Theorem Proof Fermat's last Theorem was first conjectured by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1937. However, he did not provide the proof. (apparently he had omitted the proof as there was not enough margin space to write it down!) We ...
Karl Friedrich Gauss Gauss was a German mathematician who lived in the late 1700's through the mid-1800's. Stories picturing him as a child mathematical prodigy abound, though some are probably not true. One such story has him correcting his father's arithmetic on some business accounts when Gauss was only three. Gau...
Chaos Theory Where chaos begins, classical science stops." James Gleick "The century's third great revolution in physical sciences." Gleick Chaos Theory: The study of complex nonlinear dynamic systems and forever changing complex systems based on mathematical concepts of recursion. Known as the irregular side of sci...
Artículos con la etiqueta 'lenguaje de la ciencia' The vast dimensions of the learning process necessitate the choice of a focussed enough theme — more especially the Sciences-for a purposeful analysis. And Mathematics is the most natural language for such study, as it provides a quantitative basis for articulating th...
"Kurt Gödel's (1906-1978) monumental theorem of incompleteness demonstrated that in every formal system of arithmetic there are true statements that nevertheless cannot be proved. The result was an upheaval that spread far beyond mathematics, challenging conceptions of the nature of the mind." "Is the core of cognitio...
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Many organisms in the coral reef have a very particular structure; the frilly crenelation seen in coral, kelp, nudibranch, seashells… is a form of geometry known as. Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mat...
Three guys go into a hotel, each with $10 in his pocket. They book one room at $30 a night. A short while later a fax from the headquarters directs the hotel to charge $25 a night. So the receptionist gives the bellhop $5 to take to the three guys sharing the room. Since the bellhop never got a tip from them and becaus...
Euclidean Fun for Kids Twenty-three centuries after Euclid of Alexandria composed his Elements of Geometry, some of his favorite shapes ­– including the triangle, square, and circle – were re-released as repositionable wall graphics today. The sturdy wall graphics substrate, which was not available in Euclid's era, ha...
I'd live badly if I didn't write and write badly if I didn't live Fractal A fractal is a mathematical intrigue; quite simply a geometric figure each part of which has the same statistical character as the large, whole piece. This property is known as self – similarity. mandelbrot set The term fractal is a derivativ...
Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know By Tony Crilly £11.99 Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 c...
Math Philosophy-- Why does 1/∞ not equal 0, and for that matter, what is ∞?Ok, you want an answer...here. 1/infinity = small If you want to use a concept as part of an equation...I can use a concept as the answer. Or hell...we are living in the realm of fantasy...so I'll change my answer. I don't mind if infinity i...
Most viewed These include works by painters, graphic artists, sculptors, art teachers, and students.These fine artists-who include mathematicians and scientists-examine how mathematics influences their art.Investigating facets of the san guo yan yi games three-dimensional world in order to understand mathematical conc...
Golden Mean Ratio: The golden ratio describes the relationship between two proportions. The ratio between subsequent Fibonacci numbers approaches the Golden Ratio, denoted by the Greek letter Phi. Sacred Geometry of the Nautilus Shell. The Chambered Nautilus is a living fossil that has survived in Earth's oceans for t...
Don't trust that algorithm Harvard Ph.D. warns of big data's dark side in 'Weapons of Math Destruction' Whether we know it or not, complex algorithms make decisions that affect nearly every aspect of our lives, determining whether we can borrow money or get hired, how much we pay for goods online, our TV and music ch...
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From fast cars and aeroplanes to computer encryption – mathematics underpins so much of modern life. In this episode, Jim Al-Khalili uncovers how, between the 9th and 14th centuries, mathematicians from the Islamic world helped mathematicise science and lay the foundations of algebra. He looks at the modern mathemati...
MONROE, CT, USA -- In celebration of Pi Day, Masuk High School students, with help from local preschoolers, assembled a pi paper chain made of 75,000 links, using a different color for each of the ten digits of pi - setting the new world record for the Longest Pi Chain. Photo: In celebration of Pi Day, Masuk High Schoo...
2 + 2 = 7 (Because sometimes what you DON'T know matters) Anyone who knows any math will know that the single most certain truth on earth is that the Cubs will never win the pendant. Wait, no, I was going to say, the single most certain truth on earth is "2+2=4". It is completely indisputable. Except when it's wrong....
ART AND THE MAGIC SQUARE, PART V Friday, April 11, 2014 One of the hottest topics going on in the research of magic squares are water retention magic squares. Developed by Dr. Craig Knecht, these squares are analyzed from the perspective that a larger integer corresponds to a taller height than a smaller integer. In ...
Links Imagine a cantankerous amateur mathematician on his deathbed leaving in the margins of a book an assertion of a theorem. Because Pierre de Fermat, a lawyer by formal profession, corresponded, collaborated, goaded and vexed the great mathematicians of his day—no less than Newton, Descartes, and Gauss, and propose...
Saturday, April 24, 2010 "The importance of the creation of the zero mark can never be exaggerated. This giving to airy nothing, not merely a local habitation and a name, a picture, a symbol, but helpful power, is the characteristic of the Hindu race from whence it sprang. It is like coining the Nirvana into dynamos. ...
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series or Fibonacci sequence are the numbers in the following integer sequence: (sequence A000045 in OEIS) or, alternatively,[1] By definition, the first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1[...]
Before all the instruments and theorems listed in this article were available the most used tool for measurement were an individuals hands. Astronomy was no different. There are 9 hands from the horizon to zenith if held at arms length, palms facing so they can be seen and stacked on top of one another during the count...
1) With Pythagorean's theorem, dozens of proofs exist (including one by a US President). So you have the choice of which proof you favor. This theorem may have more known proofs than any other (the law of quadratic reciprocity being another contender for that distinction); the book The Pythagorean Proposition contains...
Mathematics Colloquia and Seminars Voting in Agreeable Societies Student-Run Applied & Math Seminar Speaker: Anthony Caine, UC Davis Location: 2112 MSB Start time: Wed, Feb 3 2016, 12:10PM Consider a one dimensional political specturm like liberal versus conservative. Did you know that in a society where every...
Saturday, November 8, 2008 I admire most I have my favorite numbers too. My favorite number is 47 - the number of letters in the longest word in the English language. It also combines two of my favorite digits 4 and 7. 5 is also one of my favorite digits. Why do you ask? These are my favorite numbers to write. I l...
abstract Primordially a geometry was a science on properties of geometrical objects and their mutual disposition. Such interpretation of the term "geometry" is qualified as physical geometry. A use of only Euclidean geometry generated another interpretation of the term "geometry", which was interpreted as a logical co...
Everyone knows that a square has 4 corners, but how many square faces are there in a tesseract? And how many tesseracts are there in a 9-cube? As an explorer of higher spaces, I often need to know the answers to arcane questions like this. Many years ago I found a quick and easy way of finding them: a triangle of numbe...
2 + 2 = We Must Raise Taxes Because White People Are Bad Since moonbattery is a totalitarian ideology, nothing escapes from its poisonous lies — not even mathematics. Teachers unsure how to pass off indoctrination in race-based Marxism (a.k.a. "social justice") as a math class can find resources to assist them at Radi...
When a puzzling disease devastates her beloved father, mathematics prodigy Mona Gray isolates herself and turns to the world of numbers for comfort.
If you own an Apple phone, it's quite likely that you've spent hours (maybe not all together) asking Siri challenging questions that 'she' probably won't have an answer to. Or just trying out different answers that Siri would give for the heck of it. There would also have been times when your mathematically challenged...
Mathematical Physics The Prime Number is Connected to the Quantum-Mechanical Basic Equation. The prime number is connected to the quantum-mechanical basic equation. Mathematician Euler discovered a prime number and a connection with π (Japanese yen) for the first time. The left side of a go board of the following equ...
Keep calm and use correct scientific methodology. Prime Time In the modern world, pure mathematicians unfortunately do not make that much money because they are perceived as 'useless', working purely in the strive for a beautiful proof or an elegant derivation. I feel as if many areas of mathematics have gradually pu...
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Mathematics + Unconditional Love = ? The Journal for Urban Mathematics Education (JUME) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, that recently published an article I wrote that explored the question, "What does teaching mathematics as agape, or unconditional love, look like?" Think about it…if a teacher started with u...
NEWS AND VIEWS Local News Five scavenger hunt forms were handed in on November 9th. Overall winner and first place in the category of students who have not taken Calculus was freshman Mehdi Bandali. Second place in this category was Jennifer Findley. The first place math major winner was Asmee Elmkhanter and the seco...
Wednesday, 1 June 2011 Intuitions Regarding Geometry Are Universal, Study Suggests All human beings may have the ability to understand elementary geometry, independently of their culture or their level of education. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by CNRS, Inserm, CEA, the Collège de France, Harvard Uni...
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Professor uses magic tricks to teach students math By IBT Staff Reporter On 06/03/09 AT 4:33 PM A professor from a British university has created a new way to help students to learn math by teaching them magic tricks. Professor Peter McOwan from Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of t...
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This photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display. Babylonian cuneiform numerals. Key to the clay-pressed Cuneiform numerals used in the later Babylonian period (2000BC to 75AD). The Babylonia...
Menu Tag Archives: infinity One other fascinating discovery about infinity in One Two Three… Infinity that was new to me is that the number of points on two lines of any length is the same. Also, that the number of points on a plane, and even three dimensional space is the same. First of all, what I mean by "number ...
Pages Thursday, June 11, 2009 Polya's Army Problem Solving is a big deal in any math class I teach, and I, like most math teachers, use Georg Polya's problem solving phases as a framework. Though I used to teach it as a four step process, I now recognize it as four phases, which problem solvers can progress through ...
We have now moved on from looking at the arts in TOK to looking at how TOK can be applied to the area of knowledge of mathematics. In our first math TOK lesson, we looked at how we could define math in a way that would work in the realm of theory of knowledge, as well as looking at math in general and comparing our TOK...
Calculating Number of Days Passed Since the Introduction of Gregorian Calendar This study is an algorithm of calculating number of days passed since the introduction of Gregorian Calendar for any given date using simplified formula. It consists of nine algebraic expressions, five of which are integer function by subst...
These are the musings mucking about in my cranium. Proceed with caution. And maybe bourbon. Menu Poly-dodeca-icsosa-and so and on and on and on… A polyhedron is is what you see in Cairo. The Pyramids. It's basically a bunch of angles and corners that all equal the same length.It's a three dimensional shape with flat...
Participant to some european programs for making short stays and schools; including Wroclaw university Poland (august 2000), University Edinburgh UK (april 2000), Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2002)
What if Flatland wasn't a plane I had a couple of requests to bring the squircles to a New Year's Eve party: I threw a couple of other 3d prints into the bag, too, because I thought the kids there would like more than just squircles. The 4d shapes generated a lot of conversation. Bathsheba Grossman's "Hypercube B" in...
Yes, it's 3/14/14. In a sense, this whole month can be a celebration of Pi, because it's 3/14, but today, 3/14, is the official day of celebration (set aside by Congress in 2009 in one of its least and most irrational actions to date). Wynberg celebrated this day in three ways: An interhouse teacher/learner competiti...
Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History [ send me this paper ] A 4 page book review. William Berlinghoff and Fernando Gouvea offer a fascinating and insightful view of the history of mathematics in their text Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History For Teachers and Others. The authors' intention in this work is to give...
Math Circles 19Nov09 The University of Waterloo's CEMC holds Math Circles in which they invite local grade 6-12 kids to come to the university one evening a week for math enrichment activities. In the past years I have participated for 2-3 weeks per year, running sessions on the topics of Game Theory and Conics (elli...