Articles Tagged with mathematics

Entertaining, clear and correct

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What is important in popular science?

It’s almost always entertaining, but you can’t count on all three.

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Sunrise, sunset

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In-between calculations

In the twilight land of Spherical Astronomy. . .

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Analog lessons

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Doomed ideas (III)

A different sort of lesson for this digital age.

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Teaching creativity

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Or not

Sometimes following a procedure is necessary; other times, it’s not an option.

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Interpolation

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No longer useful

We don’t need to look up things in tables of numbers nowadays.

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Handwriting

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Legibility

The old-fashioned art still has some use.

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Unstated assumptions

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Conditional probability

The assumptions you make without noticing can change the answers you get.

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A philosophical essay

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Many topics

A mathematical essay turns out to have much more than mathematics in it.

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But first-

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The two-step problem

We identify a major block to productivity.

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A changing syllabus

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What to learn

“Quantum Mechanics” is not what it used to be.

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