David Treeby, of Enrichment Mathematics fame, has alerted me to a free online calculus text (lecture notes), which may be of interest to you senior school mathematics guys. The text is by Richard Hammack, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. I hadn’t heard of Hammack but he seems like a very interesting guy.
Dear Singaporeans, I have no idea why you guys are visiting this blog all of a sudden but make yourself at home. Stay. Bring your books. Bring your teachers. Bring your curriculum. Bring your curriculum authority. Please. Continue reading “Welcome, Singaporeans”
Anyone who can watch America now and fail to hear the echoes of 1930s Germany is either entirely ignorant of history or is simply a demented fan of this creeping fascism. Continue reading “When Godwin’s Law Fails”
Has anyone involved in the Abdel-Fattah mess failed to act like a hypocrite or a coward or a censor or an antisemite or a straight asshole, or all of the above? I imagine such a person may exist but, for the life of me, I have not come across them.
Note that I am *not* interested in commenters providing examples from the plethora of hypocrisy and cowardice and censoriousness and antisemitism and assholeness. I am interested in the identification of anyone, and everyone, who has acted consistently and sensibly and with integrity.
Continue reading “A Question About the Abdel-Fattah Debacle”
I’ve been taking a break from blogging, obviously, in order to watch the cricket and to watch America descend from madness to whatever-is-beyond-madness. I’ve done a bit of blog tinkering, which has hopefully made the blog easier to navigate, or at least has not made things worse.