## Archive for May, 2008

### Every Subject Has A Shadow

$\bullet$An obituary for W. W. Sawyer (a great expositor), at +plus.

### Proudly Burned Toast

$\bullet$“What do math-smart women want?”, by Joanne Jacobs, spotted at the Carnival of Education (at Teacher in a Strange Land).

### Love Minus Zero

$\bullet$Borovik revisits Misha-versus-limits (mentioned by me here [“FToC flamewar”]); also this “unusually political” post (which reminds me of a a recent post in my new blog).

### No School Monday

$\bullet$G. Pullum’s somewhat unenthusiastic review of The Oxford Murders (forthcoming).

### Somebody Gets It

Carnival of Mathematics #33 is up at Walking Randomly. Worth re-installing Firefox for (the local Mordacs have decreed that our former Computers are now Workstations; we can’t make changes from one session to the next …)!

### Difficult? Madam, Would God It Were Impossible!

$\bullet$“Why is arithmetic difficult?”, at micromath.
$\bullet$Interesting discussion of infinitesmals at Ars Mathematica.

### Math For The Very Patient

This texblog.wordpress.com page may prove useful; already it’s led me to the Math for the Masses entry of the wordpress.com blog (to which I’m currently finding it impossible to link directly). God knows, it would be much more useful if the window that one edits posts in wasn’t so frustratingly fraught with fight-the-user misfeatures. I damn near quit forever last week in creating this short post in the Calc III blog; I found out just in time that cut-and-paste was damaging the code invisibly (and so, in order to recover half-an-hour’s work, I re-entered a bunch of code manually). I already knew that entering plain text that I’d created in MS Wordpad was a losing move because of (what I sorely regret being able to call) the usual carriage-return issues. You’d think that at least in this context—editing, not only HTML, but $\TeX$ for the love of Knuth, it would have been considered a good idea to let the poor sap at the typer see the code that the machine is actually going to use … why is this so hard?

### Tu Quoque

$\bullet$Nonsense from an old source.

### What And Give Up Show Biz

$\bullet$ Remarks on the Disappointment Machine at KTM.

### Go It, Husband; Go It Bear

$\bullet$Battle of the pop-math writers, at Halfway There. HT: Hlavaty.

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