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Archive for May, 2009
Philosophy of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Naming Infinity
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity, by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor. Strongly recommended.
*Starred Review* How did a country wracked by civil war, devastated by famine, and overshadowed by tyranny incubate a major breakthrough in modern mathematics? In the origins of descriptive set theory, Graham and Kantor (both self-described secular rationalists) confront the puzzling [...]
Traders to Teachers
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
muriel:
Americans have a programme called “Traders to Teachers“, designed to turn unemployed finance professionals into math teachers in three months. And if they didn’t take math in university, no problem….
