Articles Tagged with mathematics

Libraries and long walks

An unnecessary problem

Scientists sometimes set themselves problems just to learn.

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Alternate methods

The answer or the process?

When there’s more than one way to get there, you have to choose.  This can be confusing or useful.

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Hawking radiation – II

Black holes to the rescue

We contine with an explanation of why Stephen Hawking is famous among physicists.

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Hawking radiation – I

The fame of a physicist

Prof. Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist, died this month.  But why was he famous?

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Only a test

Asking the questions

Making a test can be harder than taking it.

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How it’s done

Telescopes and databases

Astronomy changes.  So do the kind of people who become astronomers.

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Knowing what you know

Your own limits

Are you really almost there, or just starting out?

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Learning for yourself

textbooks (gravitation, thermodynamics) and papers with equationsIn class and out of class

Our tutoring consultant remarks on different ways of learning.

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Cutting it short

How is a poster like a sonnet?

Our astronomer struggles to fit into a limited space.

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Learning and relearning

Holes in one’s memory

Not everything we learn sticks.  This can be discouraging.

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