Monthly Archives: September 2015

Public ignorance

This week, I learned the value of public ignorance (or, perhaps, relearned it).  One of my math students wanted to complete a proof by saying, half-way through, “Since all these steps are reversible, just reverse them for the second half … Continue reading

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