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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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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 [...]

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A wonderful blog

Apparently, by a woman mathematician:
http://ideafoundlings.blogspot.com/

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http://www.logicomix.com/en/
(with thanks to Jean-Michel Kantor).

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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 [...]

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MK: A Childhood Story

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 [...]

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Front cover

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On Mobius transformations

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 [...]

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From 10 Downing Street

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 [...]

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