Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by yters on Thursday November 27, 2008 @10:23AM
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That is really neat. I've never had that experience, and I definitely envy you.
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Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by cool-RR on Thursday November 27, 2008 @10:46AM
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You can just attend calculus 101 when the next semester opens, in any university.
Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by ars on Thursday November 27, 2008 @05:46PM
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You mean audit a class? Not sure why you got downmodded, as far as I know you most universities allow people to audit as much as they want.
Edit: Never mind, you go the downmod for saying calc 101 - it's certainly not a 101 class.
Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by wensing on Thursday November 27, 2008 @11:29PM
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Not 101 (technically it was labeled 161), but at the Univ. of Chicago (where I went), Spivak was the first Calc class on the honors track--i.e. the honors variant of 101. And that course did exactly what he's talking about.
Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by cool-RR on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:59PM
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In the two universities I attended, the Technion and HUJI, it was as I described. In fact, I did not know there existed such a thing as a first-year calculus course that doesn't include defining "number" and "addition" from the ground up.
So maybe not just any university, sorry.
Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by rsheridan6 on Thursday November 27, 2008 @12:48PM
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They didn't do that in my calc 101 class. Maybe at Princeton or something.