trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
When I was an undergraduate, we had an entire class dedicated to making the transition from calculus-type mathematics to abstract upperclass-level mathematics. We learned basic logic and set notation and manipulation, proof structures, and induction, proving simple number theory results that didn’t require additional new concepts beyond induction. I got to teach such a course […]
In February of 2011, I gave a talk to the Dartmouth Math Club about linear algebra. This post replicates the page of resources I made for the club members related to that talk, and adds one new one. Slides from the talk. Pdf about uses of linear algebra. From Oliver Knill, Harvard Math, near the […]
As a former computer science student, I’ll leave WordPress’s original title in place. Don’t expect much from this site right away; I just got jealous of everyone with their own websites and had to join the crowd.