Tag: mathematics
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February 1, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I have a number of questions still rumbling around after Harrison Middleton University’s January Quarterly Discussion. We read Archimedes’ Sand Reckoner and G. H. Hardy’s Mathematician’s Apology. I put these two pieces together because I am interested in mathematical discourse separated by thousands …
September 28, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I hear a lot of teachers complain that students are not willing to spend much time trying to struggle with a difficult problem. Some of these teachers lament the fact that gadgets have become a main source of information, rather than logic. In …
February 5, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. A colleague suggested that I re-read Euclid as if his definitions were a poem. Considering I study poetry often, this sounded like a fun exercise. I was unprepared, however, for the depth of insight that followed. I already discussed how important it was …
January 29, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Let me begin by stating that organizing and leading Harrison Middleton University’s Quarterly Discussions is one of the best parts of my job. The participants always challenge me as do the texts and authors. This quarter, I chose something completely foreign to me …
