A wonderful text by Michael Gromov: http://www.ihes.fr/~gromov/PDF/ergobrain.pdf
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Structures, Learning and Ergosystems
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From The Guardian:
One of our first patients, just 17 years old, was brought to us in a wheelchair,” says Professor Christer Lindquist, a pioneer in the use of a brain surgery technique for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), known as Gamma Knife. “This boy would set himself maths problems, which he had to [...]
AN: A childhood story
Posted in Uncategorized on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As for the limits, we were told to imagine an animal getting closer to point on the plane but not really arriving at it. This is a very poor discription and gave me many years of unnecessary pain while dealing with limits. The things is this animal might actually decompose itself into many different animals [...]
The anthropology of meaning
Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
L. Radford, The anthropology of meaning. Educational Studies in Mathematics 61 (2006), 39–65:
Meaning is one of the recent terms which have gained great currency in mathematics education. It is generally used as a correlate of individuals’ intention and considered a central element in contemporary accounts of knowledge formation. One important question that arises in this context is the [...]
Childhood stories from TE
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I found your blog via the entry on women and mathematics.
I know that this is not exactly what you are searching for with your demand for stories, but I have to comment on the “intrinsic competitiveness” of mathematics.
In mathematics olympiads and in professional mathematics, competitiveness is ritualized and contained by ethical rules. In my olympiad training session, you were [...]
Motherlode: Math’s Too Hard for a Parent’s Help
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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)
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 [...]
