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The Knowledge Quota
This is just a quick update to link everyone to my old website The Knowledge Quota – critical thinking tutoring. There is a lot of good information about how to think about that world out there. Enjoy!
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1729
There’s a famous story in the math world about seemingly “boring” numbers. It goes like this: There was a famous Indian mathematician named Srinivasa Ramanujan. Mr Ramanujan went to England to study in England with another famous mathematician named G.H. Hardy. Ramanujan fell fatally ill, and Hardy would visit him quite often. “Hardy used to…
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Greek Geometry
Geometry is one of the easiest of the early maths to be able to understand because it is the math of the physical world. Where geometry becomes difficult is the lack of formal logic education to help people build the world around them. The start of geometry as a math was with the need to…
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The History of Mathematics
Under an ahistorical program for mathematics, it is unnecessarily hard for students to grasp concepts. Mathematics is not a sphere of thought that is disconnected from the real world. As part of the real world, mathematics has grown through time; mathematics therefore has a history. There were hardly any ‘a-ha!’ moments in mathematicians minds, there…