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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!dutrun!dutiws!dutiag!hdev
  2. From: hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: who should teach calculus?
  5. Message-ID: <hdev.721612905@dutiag>
  6. Date: 13 Nov 92 00:01:45 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov10.223300.19016@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov12.203923.26575@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  8. Sender: news@dutiws.tudelft.nl
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  11. gedgar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gerald A Edgar) writes:
  12. >How about: "should algebraists teach calculus?"
  13. >Are they the ones who say, "I have never used hyperbolic functions,
  14. >so we can skip that section"??
  15.  
  16. Funny.
  17. How about: "should calculus teachers teach algebra?"
  18. Are they the ones who say, "I have never used finite fields,
  19. so we can skip that section"??
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  21. Hans de Vreught                          | John von Neumann:
  22. hdev@dutiaa.tudelft.nl                   | Young man, in mathematics
  23. Delft University of Technology (TWI-ThI) | you don't understand things,
  24. The Netherlands                          | you just get used to them.
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