Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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I’m feeling a bit exhilarated at the moment.

There is a famous mathematical/philosophical book called Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos, that looks at the nature of mathematical proof, reasoning, argument, refutations, counterexamples, definitions, and a whole bunch of fun fundamental mathematical things. It’s set up as a script, with a (very clever) class debating about a […]

October 30th, 2009 | Category: Random thoughts, Work | 7 comments