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- From: sibley@math.psu.edu (David Sibley)
- Subject: Re: group theory for HS students
- In-Reply-To: prener@watson.ibm.com's message of Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:12:13 GMT
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- >If math courses had the training of mathematicians as their only
- >purpose, then the ordering would be more like what you suggest. On
- >the other hand, there is an urgent need to provide, say, physics
- >students, with calculus at an even faster rate than is usually done.
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- When I was a grad student at Caltech many years ago, there was a rumor
- that the math department had received a request along these lines from
- the physics department. It seems they were reorganizing freshman
- physics and could do it the way they really wanted to, providing only
- that the calculus courses be reorganized a bit as well. They wanted
- freshman calculus taught so that Green's theorem in the plane would be
- covered by the end of the second week.
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- David Sibley
- sibley@math.psu.edu
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