Re: Re: Paul Lockhart's book reviewed in the L.A. Times!

From: Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:13:23 -0700

On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:08 PM, tschibasch wrote:
> People who went into mathematics and stuck with it and later entered
> technical fields should be commended.
>

I've always called myself the world's worst mathematician (I nearly
flunked out of UCLA because, for some insane reason, I decided to take
honors calc). Indeed, that's why I ended up being a linguistics major.

Discrete math and trig, however, I rocked at, which always struck me
as curious.
Received on 2009-04-15 19:13:46