Archive for November 2010
Galois and symmetry: Marcus du Sautoy
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 23, 2010
A lovely discussion on symmetry, opening with the death of Evariste Galois at age 20: And here is a beautiful short film about Galois:
Make a triangle on a sphere with the largest possible sum of angles
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 23, 2010
When teaching prospective mathematics teachers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, I liked to shake up their preconceptions in mathematics, the unexamined assumptions that they had accepted as fact because they were told it was so. So one evening I set the class the problem of finding how large they could make the sum of […]
