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Is Calculus a dead language?
0 Comments Published by admin April 24th, 2008 in Education, Doctors of Philosophy, Newton, Calculus, Computer scienceFrom Dreams of Calculus - Perspectives on Mathematics Education:1
Classical Greek or Latin formed an important part of secondary education only 50 years ago, with motivations similar to those currently used for mathematics: studies in these subjects would help develop logical thinking and problem solving skills. Today, very few students take Greek and Latin with […]
(double tuesday)
0 Comments Published by admin March 11th, 2008 in Physics, Doctors of Philosophy, General Relativity, Puns, Computer scienceJohn Baez announces that Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: a Rosetta Stone is done. I don’t understand the category theory1 details but I find the paper very inspirational.
On Section 1.4.2 Categories in Functional Programming authors consider the program (double) which doubles a number, so,
(double 4) = 8.
Double takes an integer and doubles it.2 But
in reality, […]
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