Pat'sBlog
The mathematical (and other) thoughts of a (now retired) math teacher,
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Bromine Stinks, of course
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My wife was reading something from William James that sent me running to the dictionary. He used the term "fuliginous mist", and ...
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Another New "Old" Term
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Adjusting some notes in my web page the other day, I was editing a page with a note on the Electron . Here is some of it: Our solar system ...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
A "Happy" Phrase That Didn't Stick
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In the July 1912 issue of the Philosophical Magazine I came across a term I had never seen in the review of "Elements of Analytical Geo...
Monday, 13 July 2009
Pushing Back the Date on the Irrational Number Line
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In my research on math books, I had been surprised by how recent it seemed that number lines had come into use in textbooks. Prior to this ...
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