Republic of Mathematics blog

Yes, that’s right: this semester all 3 mathematics courses I am teaching are devoid of tests, quizzes, examinations and homework. The courses are: Ordinary differential equations (37 students) Mathematical statistics (12 students) Mathematical modeling of cellular networks (22 students) The differential equations class consists entirely of undergraduate engineering students.  This class is structured into two […]

My ex-wife used to wonder what was the difficulty in forming, or talking about, the set of all natural numbers. This was not a reason for our eventual separation.  It did, however, cause her some angst in wondering why we can’t  just imagine all the counting numbers bundled together in a set: $latex \{1, 2, […]