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| | Continuing the theme of alternative approaches to teaching calculus, I take the liberty of posting a letter sent by Donald Knuth to to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in March, 1998 (TeX file). Professor Anthony W. Knapp P O Box 333 East Setauket, NY 11733 Dear editor, I am pleased to see so...
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| | [AI summary] A mathematician scribe the integration of Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic geometries as metaphors in the works of authors like Plato and Dostoyevsky during a weekly course.
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| | Princeton University Press(2008) ISBN13: 978-0-691-12677-7 Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is so simple it can be explained to a child. Euler's Gem tells the illuminating story of this indispensable mathematical idea. From ancient Greek geometry...
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