As a resident of Indiana, I'm forever grateful to them. Passing the torch of legislative interference in the mathematical/scientific arts is *such* a relief.
I'm sorry I don't have a specific book or paper handy so that I might give you it's name, but based on my experience as a high school teacher, college instructor, and parent, I heartily recommend something on higher cardinalities.
Some specific topics would be:
- What does it mean for two infinite sets to have the same size?
- There are no more rational numbers than counting numbers.
- The size of the set of real numbers is larger than the size of the set of counting numbers.
- Some principles of transfinite arithmetic.
I've found that the material above, if presented fairly concretely, is well within the capabilities of high school students. Further, the concepts are odd-ball enough that they find it interesting. Well, some of them do.
If your question is any indication of your general work as a teacher, you're doing a great job. On behalf of the country, "Thanks".
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Has anyone else noted that Mr. Jobs has been back about 12 years, from 1985 until 1997 and that sometime in 2009 he will have been back for as long as he was gone?
Has anyone done a more precise calculation?
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All analogies limp.
Wasn't the Batmobile atomic-powered?
For those with a bent toward Mathematica, GPU computing is baked into Version 8.
There's more information at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/GPUComputing.html
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm solely a long-time user, not a Wolfram employee.
As a resident of Indiana, I'm forever grateful to them. Passing the torch of legislative interference in the mathematical/scientific arts is *such* a relief.
I'm sorry I don't have a specific book or paper handy so that I might give you it's name, but based on my experience as a high school teacher, college instructor, and parent, I heartily recommend something on higher cardinalities.
Some specific topics would be:
- What does it mean for two infinite sets to have the same size?
- There are no more rational numbers than counting numbers.
- The size of the set of real numbers is larger than the size of the set of counting numbers.
- Some principles of transfinite arithmetic.
I've found that the material above, if presented fairly concretely, is well within the capabilities of high school students. Further, the concepts are odd-ball enough that they find it interesting. Well, some of them do.
If your question is any indication of your general work as a teacher, you're doing a great job. On behalf of the country, "Thanks".
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Note: tpzahm has appointed himself spokesman for the country. His views do not necessarily represent those of Slashdot, its editors, or its readers. -- Ed.
Has anyone else noted that Mr. Jobs has been back about 12 years, from 1985 until 1997 and that sometime in 2009 he will have been back for as long as he was gone? Has anyone done a more precise calculation?