SUNDAY MAGAZINE | October 30, 2009
Motherlode: Math’s Too Hard for a Parent’s Help
By Lisa Belkin
Many parents would rather talk to their kids about sex and drugs than math and science.
(with thanks to muriel)
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Motherlode: Math’s Too Hard for a Parent’s Help
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RAE/REF and the ‘economic and social impact’ of research
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Most likely you have heard about HEFCE’s proposal that in the REF (a
replacement for the RAE) 25% of future research funding would be
allocated according to the ‘economic and social impact’ of submitted
research. Many of our colleagues believe that this ‘impact’ proposal
represents an attack on the knowledge process and constitutes a threat
to the existence of basic [...]
A wonderful blog
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, by a woman mathematician:
http://ideafoundlings.blogspot.com/
A comics novel about Bertrand Russell
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.logicomix.com/en/
(with thanks to Jean-Michel Kantor).
Aldous Huxley: A childhood story of mathematics
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have always been rather partial to plane geometry; probably because it was the only branch of mathematics that was ever taught to me in such a way that I could understand it. For though I have no belief in the power of education to turn public school boys into Newtons (it being quite obvious [...]
MK: A Childhood Story
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was studying at the FeMeSha 18 in Moscow around ‘73. I recall being comfortable with the definition of derivative as a limit. On the other hand, the alternative definition that the instructor provided caused me no end of anxiety. Namely, he said the derivative is a number such that
As you correctly point out, it [...]
Book cover: “Mirros and Reflections”
Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Front cover
Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Mobius transformations
Posted in Uncategorized on September 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It should be noted that the noncompactness of the group of conformal transformations of is a nontrivial phenomenon which contradicts everybody’s geometric intuition. It is not clear at all why there exists a single conformal transformation of , which is not a rigid rotation. Similarly, one cannot see by a plain eye not equipped [...]
From 10 Downing Street
Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you for signing this petition. The Prime Minister has written a
response. Please read below.
Prime Minister: 2009 has been a year of deep reflection – a chance for
Britain, as a nation, to commemorate the profound debts we owe to those who
came before. A unique combination of anniversaries and events have stirred
in us that sense of [...]
