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Class Field Theory

February 29, 2008 in Links

$\bullet$ Fourth-grade “Calculus” at WAM!.

No Man But A Blockhead

February 28, 2008 in Job

One of my 102 classes is filling in Exam II even as I type. Which means I’m actually getting paid for this. Which is pretty doggone cool. After all those untold hours of blogging and all (reading everybody else’s stuff, I mean … I’m not claiming to’ve been very productive of actual reading matter …). Okay, that’s it. Getting back to work.

Arts & Sciences

February 28, 2008 in Uncategorized

$\bullet$ C. Johnson on an amazing math teacher at KTM.
$\bullet$ S. Dehaene profiled in The New Yorker.

The Arnold Classic

February 27, 2008 in Uncategorized

$\bullet$ Sol remembers math camp.
$\bullet$ Isabel on combinatorial quotients.

Impossible Things Before Breakfast

February 26, 2008 in Uncategorized

$\bullet$ Was Ulam a creationist? (Zeno.)

UseLess

February 25, 2008 in Links

$\bullet$ Damaging shortcuts at Math Stories.
$\bullet$ Comments on a talk by H. Wu at KTM.

3^3

February 25, 2008 in Carnival

The $|\{f| f:\{0,1,2\}\rightarrow\{0,1,2\}\}|$ Edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is up over at JD2718.

Lifelong Learning

February 21, 2008 in Links

$\bullet$ A technophile’s disappointment with “Web 2.0” at misterteacher.com.

Great Minds Think Alike

February 20, 2008 in Uncategorized

$\bullet$ Pythagorean Triples according to Borovik and Lugo.

Afraid That I Will Disappear

February 19, 2008 in Links

$\bullet$ Mathematical Instruments—A Private Collection, spotted at Slip-Sliding.
$\bullet$ A baffling Circle Puzzle at Halfway There.

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