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Newsletter: Math Forum Internet News No. 5.9A (Feb 2000 Discussions)
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Feb 28, 2000 7:50 AM
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29 February 2000 Vol. 5, No. 9A
THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS - FEBRUARY 2000 DISCUSSIONS
This special issue of the Math Forum's weekly newsletter
highlights recent interesting conversations on Internet
math discussion groups.
For a full list of these groups with links to topics covered
and information on how to subscribe, see:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/discussions/
Replies to individual discussions should be addressed to
the appropriate group rather than to the newsletter editor.
If you are familiar with a site we don't yet catalog, please
use our Web form to suggest the link. Your own brief
annotation will be much appreciated.
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FEBRUARY SUGGESTIONS:
AMTE - the mailing list of the Association of Mathematics
Teacher Educators, archived by the Math Forum at:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/amte/
- Substitution (29 Jan. 2000)
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/amte/belgandjy/
"The common element I find in most if not all of the problems
that students have that I find most baffling is some kind of
substitution... It seems like if I could understand this one
problem that it might shed light on a lot of other things.
Can anyone help?" - Shelley Walsh
The thread references an essay by Ralph Raimi, "On Solving
Equations, Negative Numbers, and Other Absurdities," at
http://www.math.rochester.edu:8080/u/rarm/equation.html.
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AP-CALC - the Advanced Placement Calculus mailing list, hosted
by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and archived at:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/ap-calc/
- DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM (2 Feb. 2000)
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/ap-calc/clehleeblex/
"Can someone provide a motivator for studying de Moivre's
theorem either (1) because the student will need it in a
future math course he/she is likely to take, or (2) because
of its application to real world problems?" - Norman Mikalac
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MATHEDU, a mailing list set up to discuss issues in Mathematics/
Education at the post-calculus level, and archived at
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/
- The Real Numbers (17 Feb. 2000)
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/keetwerdthang/
"I have used this construction of the reals in my Real
Analysis course for half a dozen years now, and it has
tremendous pedagogical benefits...." - Mark Bridger
And see other recent related threads about the reals and
calculus:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/whingbumflerm/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/pewhuyar/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/golyanpex/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/freldneldshox/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/dweldcrangquar/
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/mathedu/flunflalshi/
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HISTORIA-MATEMATICA - a virtual forum for scholarly discussion
of the history of mathematics in a broad sense, among
professionals and non-professionals with a serious interest in
the field, archived at
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/historia_matematica/
- Indian astronomy and mathematics (14 Jan. 2000)
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/historia_matematica/pawesming/
"Indian 'tables' of planetary parameters are lists first
appearing in treatises of the middle of the first millennium
CE. The suggested re-datings of the Vedic texts to the
fourth millennium BCE or earlier, which have been proposed
in various forms over the past couple of centuries, are
based on attributing a very high degree of precision to some
statements in them about the relation of star positions to
direction and seasons...." - Kim Plofker
Astronomical event-dating of the Vedic texts, Indian
mathematicians after 1000 A.D., the heliocentric model of
Aryabhata, Ptolemy and Copernicus, and more.
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