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| | I have written about geometric construction a number of times on this blog, and on my website. I outlined my philosophical outlook on this topic here. Today I summarize some construction activities, a subset of the unit you can find on my website. ---------------------------------- Geometric construction with straightedge and compass is a standard topic in...
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| | One thing you may have noticed about the trigonometric functions sine and cosine is that they seem to have no agreed upon definition. Or rather, different authors choose different definitions as the starting point, mainly based on convenience. This isn't problematic or even particularly unusual in mathematics - as long as we can derive any of the other forms from any starting point, it makes little theoretical difference which we start from since they're all equivalent anyway.
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| | Welcome to the 170th edition of the Playful Math Education Carnival --- a smorgasbord of delectable tidbits of mathy fun. It's like a free online magazine devoted to learning, teaching, and playing around with math from preschool to high school. Bookmark this post, so you can take your time browsing. There's so much playful math...
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| The Axiom of Choice is usually introduced as a non-constructive axiom that mathematicians used to care about but don't really pay much attention to anymore. It's true that mainstream mathematicians often don't pay much attention to it, but it turns out that AC isn't inherently non-constructive: it depends on what the base system it's being...