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Calculus Workshop Groups As A Humanistic Experience, Martin Vern Bonsangue Jul 1993

Calculus Workshop Groups As A Humanistic Experience, Martin Vern Bonsangue

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Faith In Mathematics, Dick Wood Jul 1993

The Role Of Faith In Mathematics, Dick Wood

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


On Attracting Mathematics Majors, Kazem Mahdavi Jul 1993

On Attracting Mathematics Majors, Kazem Mahdavi

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


The Basis For The Success Of The Potsdam Program, Rick Luttmann Jul 1993

The Basis For The Success Of The Potsdam Program, Rick Luttmann

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


On Learning In The Mathematical Sciences: Statistics 200 As A Paradigm Of Everything Wrong In Mathematical Education, James M. Cargal Jul 1993

On Learning In The Mathematical Sciences: Statistics 200 As A Paradigm Of Everything Wrong In Mathematical Education, James M. Cargal

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Developing A Mathematical Mode Of Thinking In An Undergraduate Program, Ida Doraiswamy Jul 1993

Developing A Mathematical Mode Of Thinking In An Undergraduate Program, Ida Doraiswamy

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


A Humanistic Academic Environment For Learning Undergraduate Mathematics, Clarence F. Stephens Jul 1993

A Humanistic Academic Environment For Learning Undergraduate Mathematics, Clarence F. Stephens

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


A Multicultural Matrix For Mathematics Education: Generic Ideas, Rheta N. Rubenstein Jul 1993

A Multicultural Matrix For Mathematics Education: Generic Ideas, Rheta N. Rubenstein

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


A Conjectured Paradigm Shift In 21st Century Mathematics Pedagogy, Paul Isihara Jun 1993

A Conjectured Paradigm Shift In 21st Century Mathematics Pedagogy, Paul Isihara

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

With greater and greater capacity for automated content delivery, the role of teachers may shift increasingly to providing the human touch in pedagogy such as love for students.


A New Look At An Old 3:16 An Acms Devotional, Russell W. Howell Jun 1993

A New Look At An Old 3:16 An Acms Devotional, Russell W. Howell

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

This paper examines John 3:16 in the bible by examining the language and cultural backgrounds of the verse.


Knuth's (1, 2, 1) Unstacking, Paul J. Zwier Jun 1993

Knuth's (1, 2, 1) Unstacking, Paul J. Zwier

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

This presentation is dedicated to Donald Knuth who has proposed many interesting and challenging problems in the Problems Section of The American Mathematical Monthly. The problem considered ist hat proposed by Barry Hayes, Knuth, and Carlos Subi (E3267 [1988,456]). The published solution, due to Albert Nijenhuis, just recently appeared in the March 1993 Monthly, pages 292-294.

The problem is as follows. Suppose that we are given n piles of blocks; the i-th pile having ai blocks, i = 1, 2, …, n. Dismantle the piles by choosing a pile having 2 or more blocks, removing …


Paper Abstracts, Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences Jun 1993

Paper Abstracts, Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

Paradigm Shifts in the Mathematical Sciences


Using Maple To Teach Calculus, Ken Rietz Jun 1993

Using Maple To Teach Calculus, Ken Rietz

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph W. Dauben Jun 1993

Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph W. Dauben

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Introduction (1993), Russell Howell Jun 1993

Introduction (1993), Russell Howell

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

Paradigm Shifts in the Mathematical Sciences


Using Matlab And Mathematica In Numerical Analysis, John H. Matthews Jun 1993

Using Matlab And Mathematica In Numerical Analysis, John H. Matthews

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Abraham Robinson (1918-1974): The Man And The Mathematics, Joseph W. Dauben Jun 1993

Abraham Robinson (1918-1974): The Man And The Mathematics, Joseph W. Dauben

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Infinity And The Absolute: Insights Into Our World, Our Faith, And Ourselves, Tim Pennings Jun 1993

Infinity And The Absolute: Insights Into Our World, Our Faith, And Ourselves, Tim Pennings

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Devotional Reflections, Jonathan Leech Jun 1993

Devotional Reflections, Jonathan Leech

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

No abstract provided.


Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph Dauben Jun 1993

Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph Dauben

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

Georg Cantor is well known as the founder of transfinite set theory. Equally celebrated, however, are the obstacles he faced in trying to win acceptance for his seemingly unorthodox views, his acrimonious differences with Leopold Kronecker and his unfortunate but progressively debilitating nervous breakdowns that some authors have linked directly to his many problems with set theory. Above all, Cantor's justification of set theory was all the more urgent because of Kronecker's critical denunciation of Cantor's mathematics. In tracing the evolution of Cantorian set theory, it is necessary to examine the opposition it met, and evaluate the technical, philosophical, psychological, …


Table Of Contents (1993), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences Jun 1993

Table Of Contents (1993), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

Paradigm Shifts in the Mathematical Sciences


Schedule (1993), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences Jun 1993

Schedule (1993), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1993

Paradigm Shifts in the Mathematical Sciences


Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph Dauben Jan 1993

Georg Cantor And The Battle For Transfinite Set Theory, Joseph Dauben

ACMS Journal 2004

Georg Cantor is well known as the founder of transfinite set theory. Equally celebrated, however, are the obstacles he faced in trying to win acceptance for his seemingly unorthodox views, his acrimonious differences with Leopold Kronecker and his unfortunate but progressively debilitating nervous breakdowns that some authors have linked directly to his many problems with set theory. Above all, Cantor's justification of set theory was all the more urgent because of Kronecker's critical denunciation of Cantor's mathematics. In tracing the evolution of Cantorian set theory, it is necessary to examine the opposition it met, and evaluate the technical, philosophical, psychological, …


Writing Humanistic Mathematics, Ruth Hubbard Apr 1992

Writing Humanistic Mathematics, Ruth Hubbard

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


The Profit Motive: The Bane Of Mathematics Education, Neal Koblitz Apr 1992

The Profit Motive: The Bane Of Mathematics Education, Neal Koblitz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Epistemological Pluralism: Styles And Voices Within The Computer Culture, Sherry Turkle, Seymour Papert Apr 1992

Epistemological Pluralism: Styles And Voices Within The Computer Culture, Sherry Turkle, Seymour Papert

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


What Is Mathematics And Why Don't They Know That?, Harald M. Ness Apr 1992

What Is Mathematics And Why Don't They Know That?, Harald M. Ness

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Undergraduates, The Right Questions, And Cayley Produce Results, Gary J. Sherman Dec 1991

Undergraduates, The Right Questions, And Cayley Produce Results, Gary J. Sherman

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

During the summers of 1989, 1990, and 1991, eighteen undergraduates participated in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Rose-Hulman for which the author was the principal investigator. This paper provides some examples of the mathematics discovered during these three summers and discusses the philosophy, environment and process which made these discoveries possible.


A Tale Of Two Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec May 1991

A Tale Of Two Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

The goal of this paper is to identify some of the discoveries in mathematics during the period from 1820 to 1875 that have profoundly changed the nature of mathematics. To provide a context for this, the author compares some results of mathematics before the year 1820 with those present after 1875. And to humanize this, the author discusses the details of the life and times of two mathematicians, one who was active before 1820 and one who was active after 1875.


Cantor's Concept Of Infinity: Implications Of Infinity For Contingence, Bruce A. Hedman May 1991

Cantor's Concept Of Infinity: Implications Of Infinity For Contingence, Bruce A. Hedman

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1991

Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was a devout Lutheran whose explicit Christian beliefs shaped his philosophy of science. Joseph Dauben has traced the impact Cantor's Christian convictions had on the development of transfinite set theory. In this paper I propose to examine how Cantor's transfinite set theory has contributed to an increasingly contingent world view in modern science. The contingence of scientific theories is not just a cautious tentativeness, but arises out of the actual state of the universe itself. The mathematical entities Cantor studied, transfinite numbers, he admitted were fraught with paradoxes. But he believed that they were grounded in a …