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mln84.wordpress.com
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| | | | | The most common question students have about mathematics is "when will I ever use this?" Many math teachers would probably struggle to give a coherent answer, beyond being very good at following precise directions. They will say "critical thinking" but not much else concrete. Meanwhile, the same teachers must, with a straight face, tell their... | |
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www.joachim-breitner.de
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rjlipton.com
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| | | | | How to convince someone your proof is really a proof Roger Apéry was a mathematician who solved a beautiful problem that had been open for hundreds of years. He was not an amateur in any sense, but because his result was so surprising there was initial doubt about its correctness. Even professional mathematicians have some... | |
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theoremoftheweek.wordpress.com
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| | | One of the intriguing facts about infinity mentioned in that Horizon programme (the one on recently thatI disliked) is that there are different sizes of infinity. I thought that this week I'd start discussing that fact. (There might be another theorem of the week on this subject!) Here are two questions for you to consider.... | ||
