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[ap-stat] Topology and The 20th Anniversary
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Nov 8, 2009 10:50 PM
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For those who like a bit of topology, here's the beginning of a
poem concerning today's 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin
Wall:
It was a weird wall.
Like the Mobius strip,
it had only one side,
the other side was unseen:
the far side of the Moon.
>From "It Was A Weird Wall" by Vera Pavlova, translated by Steven
Seymour from the Russian. [Given in NYTimes, Nov 8, 2009]
-- David Bee
PS: And for those who like Russian probability and classical music,
the name of choice should be A.N. Kolmogorov, as described by David
Salsburg in Chapter 14 of his book The Lady Tasting Tea, titled
"The Mozart of Mathematics".
PPS: BTW, since APStat teachers will be dealing with the concept of
a random variable soon, it may be worthwhile to point out that the
Russian word for "random variable" translates in English as
"accidental magnitude" (see P147-48 in LTT). As Salsburg writes,
"The mathematical concept of a random variable lies at the heart of
statistical methods." In other words, here's an SAT-type question
for APStat students: A random variable is to probability/statistics
as a ___________ is to mathematics.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) http://www.mrderksen.com/faq.htm
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