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The mathematical (and other) thoughts of a (now retired) math teacher,

Thursday, 29 May 2025

The Distracted Goalie

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    The great Physicist, Niels Bohr, was brother to an outstanding mathematician, Harald who founded the field of almost periodic functions....

On This Day in Math - May 29

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  ​ No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect ab...
Wednesday, 28 May 2025

From Surds, to Ab-Surds

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  I still use the word surd for irrational square roots, and I know there is a undercurrent in modern math education to remove what is consi...

On This Day in Math - May 28

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   Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence.  Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring...
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