Podcast: DownloadEuclid’s Elements, read backwards, reduces complex truths to simpler ones, such as the Pythagorean Theorem to the parallelogram area theorem, and that in...
In many problems, boundary conditions are specified in terms of the derivative of the function rather than the function itself. For example, consider the...
In many problems, boundary conditions are specified in terms of the derivative of the function rather than the function itself. For example, consider the...
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Subtraction of 3-digit numbers with regrouping are explained here with examples.As you borrow from the tens column, you can borrow from the
hundreds column also.REMEMBER:1...
Joel David Hamkins, “How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom,” Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics (2024), arxiv:2407.02463.
Abstract. I describe a...
Distance learning ... hybrid learning ... asynchronous learning ... we're all learning different terms right now! Here is a type of activity would be...
In 3rd grade, students transition from plotting, ordering, and comparing 3-digits numbers to performing the same skills with 4-digit numbers. This prepares them for...
I gave a talk for the Food for Thought seminar for the Notre Dame philosophy department.
The topic concerned definite descriptions, particularly the semantics...
At some point, maybe thirty years ago, it became fashionable to emphasize functions and their multiple representations in secondary school math. This was in...
Podcast: DownloadIn ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, mathematics meant law and order. Specialised mathematical technocrats were deployed to settle conflicts regarding taxes, trade contracts, and inheritance. Mathematics enabled states to...
Show that the boundary-value problem
can be converted to a problem with zero boundary conditions:
Define a new function in terms of as follows:
where and are constants...
This essay chronicles the liberation of plus and times from narrow notions about what sorts of things can be added and multiplied — and, relatedly, what sorts of things...