Archive for September 2013
When is an integral not an integral?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 14, 2013
No surprise to anyone really that students get confused by the difference between definite and indefinite integrals. The so-called indefinite integral is not really an integral at all, not in the sense of area: it’s the solution set to a differential equation. It’s not even usually a single function at all, but a whole family […]
The Rime of the Data Scientist
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 13, 2013
The Rime of the Data Scientist (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Part I It is a Data Scientist, And he stoppeth one of three. `By thy Python code and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me? The classroom doors are opened wide, And I am next one in; The others are met, the […]
