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59Yes Man and learning for its own sake
My son Dagon has recently decided he wants to learn Japanese. For now, he is using a computer program from Eurotalk which drills him on the meanings of simple words. If he maintains his interest, we will...
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67Effective music videos or Internet Mix Tape #1
A recent discussion got me interested in discussing what makes the video in a youtube music video effective in highlighting the song. The purpose of this hub is to link to some youtube videos that I like in...
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76The rise and fall of Peter Dvorak
Peter Dvorak, the hero of our morality play, in a dunking booth. Our story takes place in the town of Bloomington, Indiana where I live and work. Bloomington, of course, houses Indiana University at Bloomington which is the flagship of the IU...
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62How to take Chess Notation: Algebraic Notation
My son Dagon is attending the Pinnacle School in Bloomington. I will be helping out with the Pinnacle School's chess team this year. One thing I hope to do is convince the players on the team that they should...
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76On the Wealth of Nations
This hub will be somewhat different from most hubs I write. Instead of proceeding logically to prove a narrow, incontestable point, I would like to write in a stream-of-consciousness way, providing some...
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74How to make your own multiplication table without really knowing how to add.
This weekend, I have been helping my six year old son Dagon with his multiplication. Learning his multiplication table is not so natural for Dagon. I don't believe this to be unusual. Many children have trouble learning to multiply. I began to...
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70Calculus for Cranks: Lecture 1: How to add and multiply real numbers
Most calculus books begin with a description of the real numbers. Often, this description is not very useful. We are told that the reals lie on a line amongst the rationals, that they obey certain rules, and...
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79Solymosi's Sum-Product estimate
I am writing this hub to describe a recent paper in mathematics by Jozsef Solymosi. I provide a link to the paper below. The paper proves a result concerning sums and products of real numbers. The result is...
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75Books for a high school and undergraduate math education.
I am writing this hub because of David Fisher's reminder to me on the previous hub that mathematicians in fact read books. They do! Even I read books. In fact, I like books. I have never sold a book to a book...
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79Being a research mathematician
I am a research mathematician. In my case that means I am employed by the math department of a major university. (All right, sort of a major university.) But being a research mathematician just means that you discover new mathematics. In...
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