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Understanding Compactness Through Primary Sources: Early Work Uniform Continuity To The Heine-Borel Theorem, Naveen Somasunderam
Understanding Compactness Through Primary Sources: Early Work Uniform Continuity To The Heine-Borel Theorem, Naveen Somasunderam
Analysis
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Uneasy Is The Head That Imagines The Burden, Michael Adelson
Uneasy Is The Head That Imagines The Burden, Michael Adelson
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
This paper deconstructs and criticizes the very notion of “an obligation to help humanity.” I argue that such an idea of an obligation is an evolution of the ideas that emerged in the 19th century regarding the “white man’s burden.” Referencing historical allusions to the 19th and 20th century European ideas of the white man’s burden, the concept of a greater obligation to help others can be demeaning and self-aggrandizing, creating a modern, updated “new white man’s burden.” As dispositively confirmed through my own anecdotal experiences in higher education, an obligation to help humanity, specifically non-white peoples, …
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Ptolemy Finds High Noon In Chords Of Circles, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Ptolemy Finds High Noon In Chords Of Circles, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Regiomontanus And The Beginnings Of Modern Trigonometry, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Regiomontanus And The Beginnings Of Modern Trigonometry, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Hipparchus' Table Of Chords, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Hipparchus' Table Of Chords, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Babylonian Astronomy And Sexagesimal Numeration, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Babylonian Astronomy And Sexagesimal Numeration, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Varahamihira And The Poetry Of Sines, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Varahamihira And The Poetry Of Sines, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Al-Biruni Does Trigonometry In The Shadows, Danny Otero
The Trigonometric Functions Through Their Origins: Al-Biruni Does Trigonometry In The Shadows, Danny Otero
Pre-calculus and Trigonometry
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Fourier’S Heat Equation And The Birth Of Fourier Series, Kenneth M. Monks
Fourier’S Heat Equation And The Birth Of Fourier Series, Kenneth M. Monks
Differential Equations
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Gauss And The First “Rigorous” Proof Of The Fundamental Theorem Of Algebra, Sarah Hagen, Alan Kappler
Gauss And The First “Rigorous” Proof Of The Fundamental Theorem Of Algebra, Sarah Hagen, Alan Kappler
Complex Variables
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