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| | | | This post is a follow-up on some somewhat off-hand comments that I made earlier regarding the notion of truth in a "proof-based" discipline such as pure mathematics or theoretical computer science. Since the former is easier to circumscribe and also has a larger literature available on it, for the purposes of the post I will... | |
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| | | | What follows are the opening paragraphs of a pdf document giving an argument for controlled natural languages in mathematics. At the recent Big Proof 2 conference in Edinburgh, I realized that a case must be made for developing a controlled natural language for mathematics. There is little consensus on this issue, and mathematicians and computer... | |
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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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| | At the core of a great teacher's skill-set is the ability to explain the concepts, theories and techniques that make up their subject. These can seem simple to the expert teacher, but to the novice learner, these complexities can be completely alien . There is no doubt that teachers who explain things well, making the... |