I believe Adam was showing off his keen sense of humor rather than inquiring about the nature of the textbook. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:55 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com>wrote:
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
Bill Gosper wrote:
Apparently, possibility is the intersection of probability with Boolean algebra. A certain 4th grade teacher decided to enrich Saxon Math with a few days of
What's Saxon Math? Does it involve the Angle bisector theorem?
Saxon math is the math most popular among homeschoolers in the USA. See http://saxonhomeschool.hmhco.com/en/products/default.htm?level2Code=M0006
reduced to bluffing with ambigrams: gosper.org/logic.png
I can remember an anecdote that in some Cambridge lecture on
propositional
logic, the lecturer wrote a few axioms such as this:
(S ^ H) v N <==> (S v N) ^ (H v N)
And then rotated the blackboard through 180° to give the remaining axioms.
By the way, has anyone else realised that Soddy's hexlet generalises by adding extra layers of spheres?
http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/soddys-hexlet/
Sincerely,
Adam P. Goucher
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