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- From: hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: who should teach mathematics?
- Message-ID: <hdev.721610039@dutiag>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 23:13:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <BxM0n9.JFB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tep2j@amsun.apma.Virginia.EDU (Todd E. Peterson) writes:
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- >>Is it a good or bad practice to use non-mathematicians to teach mathematics
- >>courses? In particular, what about the use of engineering faculty to teach
- >>engineering calculus courses, and other applied mathematics courses?
-
- >If they can teach it mathematically, it would be appropriate to have
- >them do so in the mathematics department.
-
- Actually over here at my university every department is an enginering
- department, including the mathematics department. So, almost al math is given
- by engineers. When you study math here, you study it mathematically: starting
- with the axioms. So what's the big difference? Well, the topics that are
- covered during a math study over here are more focussed on problems you
- encounter as an engineer. The specific topics in math that are taught here are
- at the same level as the level you will encounter at a non-enginering math
- department of other universities.
-
- In principle a subject must be taught by a fully qualified person (i.e. a
- person with a degree on the subject he / she teaches). If he has an Arts /
- Science / Engineering background isn't that important, as long he presents his
- stuff the right way.
- --
- Hans de Vreught | John von Neumann:
- hdev@dutiaa.tudelft.nl | Young man, in mathematics
- Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
- The Netherlands | you just get used to them.
-