Tag: An Apple for Devlin

Infinite Jest

“1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12.” — Keith Devlin, Sept. 2, 2014 Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i)   shock & denial ii)…

Flashback

The date at the end of yesterday’s noon post was May 25, 2010. This, together with Keith Devlin’s Twitter page today, suggests a review of that date. Res ipsa…

Halloween Manifestos, 2013:

Here and at Catholics for Classical Education. See also Tom Wolfe on manifestos — — and part of an interesting Sept. 2, 2014, manifesto by Common Core supporter Keith…

Useful Princeton

See… An Apple for Devlin (July 2) Thanks for having me on (July 11) Useful Idiot (Wikipedia article) Useful Fictions (a Princeton mathematics department Spring 2014 course) "Numbers themselves…

An Apple for Devlin

A columnist for the Mathematical Association of America, Keith Devlin, yesterday posted an essay on Common Core math education. A response: Screenshot from a June 14, 2014, New…