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When academic textbook prices drop to $0.00 what will publishers do?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: October 6, 2010
Technology is like a universal acid to societal norms – it eats away away at all existing structures and modes of operation. People have lost jobs because technology has put them out of work, just as technology has created new jobs for others. Work, business and education are in high states of flux as more […]
Astonishing consequences of naive thinking about sets: Cantor's diagonal argument
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: October 4, 2010
I have mentioned in several posts now that many people do not think it is problematic to bundle all the counting numbers together in a set: the set of all natural numbers, denoted . Another apparently harmless naive thought about set formation is that one can always construct the set of all subsets of a […]
