Eriene Sidhom
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Probability is one of those topics that haunt children from grade school days, asked to determine the likelihood of picking out red marbles from a box. Even my most advanced math tutoring students sometimes feel bamboozled by it. Why? Because probability and statistics can quickly become overwhelming with the many different distributions and ...
It’s a shame that so many people can go through college as math majors and minors without ever learning the history of mathematics. Who were Euler and Gauss? Newton and Leibnitz? Euclid? We all know their theorems and mathematical contributions, but rarely do most of us think of the people —with their messy lives, quirks, and stories— behind these ...
Merry Christmas Eve! Why yes, I do believe volume rotation integration is as easy as apple pie! Every once in a while something you learn in class really just knocks you off your feet. Those of you who have taken AP physics will know that position is the integral of velocity. About a month ago, on a fairly dreary Boston morning, I was sitting in ...