Mathforge.net :: Transformative Hermeunetics, Euler, Nash, and a new home for young mathematicians
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Date: 12/06/04
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****Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics
of Quantum Gravity****
Alan Sokel has written a now-famous paper under the title ''Toward a
Transformative Hermenuetics of Quantum Gravity'', which, after having
been accepted by a reputable journal, was admitted to being a...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=955
****Some Words on the Millennium Problems****
Felix, the on-line newspaper of Imperial College, has an overview of
the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millenium Problems. "Why do the
unsolved problems of maths matter?", by Alex Antonov, is the first...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=949
****Euler's papers being translated into English****
Jordon Bell, a graduate student at Carleton University in Toronto, has
translated several papers of Euler from the original Latin into
English. The papers' subject matter looks interesting: the latest...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=947
**** $SUPERLATIVE mathematics****
It occurs to me that Mathforge needs a new category called "Because
it's there" or "Pure Entertainment"...something like that. O.k., head
on over to sophists.org to read about Conmathematics: The
Superultramodern...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=942
****John Nash biographer on big thinking****
Sylvia Nasar, the biographer of John Nash and whose book the movie "A
Beautiful Mind" was created from, has an article on Fast Company about
learning from phenomenal thinkers. She writes that Nash...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=941
****A home for burgeoning mathematicians****
Concerns of Young Mathematicians is a website, similar in content and
layout to Mathforge, but with a focus on stories-- as you may have
guessed-- concerning young mathematicians, in a manner more
career-oriented...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=935
****What exactly is a whole number?****
Professor Fred Bauer, assistant professor of philosophy at Assumption
College, ruminates on the meaning of whole numbers in his article Can
1+1+1 ever be true? (I think this was a typo... he probably meant...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=933
****12-second 13th root****
Gert Mittring figured the 13th root of a hundred digit number in his
head in 11.8 seconds. He holds several calculation records including
this one. Mittring claims there are no tricks involved. ''"I...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=927
****More proofs or more problems in the classroom?****
Here is an opinion piece in Newsday on math teaching strategies.
Specifically the author, Mike Cohen of the Amityville school district
in New York, stresses the importance of continuing the focus of...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=922
****Plea against software patents****
Some big names in the Free Software and Open Source Software world made
a statement recently against software patents. If software patents were
good for the industry, coders would support them. As it turns...
http://mathforge.net/index.jsp?page=seeReplies&messageNum=921
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