Archive for August 2011
Using the same notation for different things, and then treating them as the same anyway
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: August 16, 2011
On the last Twitter #mathchat there seemed to me to be a fair amount of confusion about what constitutes a fraction. Commonly, people were treating any expression of the form as a fraction, no matter what were . Confusion about fractions is something I’ve experienced in many places, in many contexts. The confusion seems to […]
Spirit of Mathematics: squiggle inception by Vi Hart
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: August 6, 2011
Vi Hart brilliantly illustrates the spirit of mathematical thinking
