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In some PhD programs, one earns a masters by progressing far enough to pass the prelim exams. A long time ago, I walked into the UWa...

my 2 cents: To my knowledge, IQ tests aim to measure in part: vocabulary, analogies, memory, numerical problem solving, spatial skills...

I want to elaborate on my previous post. Imagine the game is changed. You have three doors, one, with a car behind it. Now you can...

We say that ##f(x)\to C## as ##x\to \infty## if for any positive number ##\varepsilon## there exists ##B## such that the inequality...

Perhaps in the domain of the universal quantifier "for any positive epsilon"? Naively, perhaps the tension is between the necessity of...

I don't recall how far into the book I got before I quit doing it, but when I was first hired as a college calc teacher, using Thomas...

......Or to put it another way, after all these years, Achilles has apparently still not quite caught up to the tortoise.

This discussion seems to continue (here and elsewhere) without limit. However, at least in my lifetime, I suspect it will never be...

It is even easier to construct products and quotients of segments using similar triangles, i.e. triangles constructed within the same...

Interesting question. I haven't thought much about it, but if I understand, I think the point here is that, if one is given a unit...

As a humble engineer, I think there's both a counting bias and a decimal bias here. We are taught to think of numbers mainly as counts...

@Roberto Pavani: As a geometer, I share your point of view, as did Euclid. I.e. real numbers are essentially lengths on a line, (after...

I should have mentioned I was the original referee for Riemann's paper. Unfortunately I rejected it for lack of detail, but they...

Is it possible there are people today who think kids no longer need to know Euclidean geometry!? Or the Riemann - Roch theorem? Perhaps...

While increasingly rare, there are still situations where they still need to know how to write a check. Analogue clocks are still...