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Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast by rfrey on Friday August 01, 2014 @03:48PM (#8122413)
On the off chance there's a person who hasn't heard Tom Lehrer's explanation of the New Math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vetg7vWitTU

(In case you don't know Lehrer, he did PhD studies in math at Harvard, and taught at Harvard and MIT, often performing his songs during his lectures (or composing songs FOR his lectures.))

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Re:Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast by dllthomas on Friday August 01, 2014 @06:05PM (#8123093)
"taught at Harvard and MIT"

... and Santa Cruz! I was one course shy of taking his last course (Infinity) before he retired.

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