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Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness" by ars on Thursday November 27, 2008 @05:46PM (#378953)
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.

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Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness" by wensing on Thursday November 27, 2008 @11:29PM (#379101)
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.
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Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness" by cool-RR on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:59PM (#395877)
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.

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