> But we have a beautiful solution. > > Two tracks: > > (a) "heuristic" math, includes proofs, lots of stuff from > other disciplines, humanities majors welcome to teach it, > including film majors, semioticians. > > (b) "proof factory" math, may import a little color, but > mostly for math majors and definitely not teachable by > any except math specialists. > > The people on the (b) track may continue to hurl their > insults and consider (a) not even worthy of the name > "math".
Meanwhile, the real mathematicians will merge the two tracks.
--Lou Talman Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences Metropolitan State College of Denver
