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Is rationalizing rational?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: May 3, 2011
Rationalize or get it wrong? Text books and test setters regularly mark students wrong if they give an answer of to a problem. A student is supposed to know, as part of mathematical convention, that should be rationalized to . This issue has been discussed before by @suburbanlion at SuburbanLion’s Blog and @jamestanton at Rationalising […]
Mathematics is an empirical science
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: May 2, 2011
Many people – including some of my colleagues – like to argue that mathematics is an art, not a science, and that even if it is a science then it’s not like physics, chemistry or biology because it’s a deductive, not an empirical, science. In the five videos below Doron Zeilberger argues a contrary point […]
