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• Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as…
• I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with…
• Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
• Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have…
• The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.
• The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
• Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system.…
• What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a…

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