Faceless Bureaucrat

Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.

Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Our Chaotic Times Are New?

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 Seb Falk in " The Light Ages " quotes the fourteenth century poet John Gower" "For now at this time men see the world o...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Do Away With Plane Geometry?

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 That's what Kevin Drum proposed . I remember plane geometry fondly.  I think it was my best subject in high school.  I enjoyed the proc...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Those Were the Days (of Dashed Math Dreams)

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Andrew Gelman posts some memories of fellow competitors in the Math Olympiad program.  I was never on that level, but I did have contact wi...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Comparative Advantage in People

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The economists have an ancient law which they call "comparative advantage".  Essentially it says a country should do whatever it d...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Less Equality Everywhere, Including Math

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Atlantic has a nice piece on increasing achievement by American teenagers in math.  Why?  "problem solving", outside class progra...
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