Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’
First steps in differential equations: learning to see and to think
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 19, 2011
Differential equations and studio learning This semester I am once again teaching introductory differential equations. The students in this class are mainly engineering majors, with some mathematics and physics majors, for whom the course is mandatory. Occasionally a humanities or business major will enroll in this class for interest, but not this semester. The computer […]
Happy mathematical new year: 2011 scores again (so does 2012, coming up in under a year)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 11, 2011
In a previous post I discussed how 2011 is a prime number and also a sum of consecutive prime numbers. 2011 has another curious property that it shares with 2012, and with 2001 and 2002: Reversing the digits of 2011 we get the number 1102 Squaring 1102 gives us the number 1214404. On the other […]
