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Re: 7th IHPST Newsletter 1 - Forward from Lou Talman



FORWARD FROM LOU TALMAN - Only to Phys-L and DEWEY-L because Lou is a
subscriber to MathLearn and MathTeach, and a response by Sanjoy
Mahajan to Phys-LrnR quoted Lou's post.

Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:36 -0700 (MST)
From: me@talmanl1.mscd.edu
Subject: Re: 7th IHPST Newsletter 1
To: DEWEY-L@GANGES.CSD.SC.EDU, PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU,
PHYSLRNR@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU, math-learn@yahoogroups.com,
math-teach@mathforum.org, rrhake@earthlink.net
Cc: hcallawa@MAIL.UNI-MAINZ.DE, jacklochhead@attbi.com, jerepst@att.net,
sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk

Richard Hake posted the following notice, reproduced only in part
here:

HASSLER WHITNEY'S IDEAS FOR HUMANISTIC MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Sanjoy Mahajan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

"Abstract: Late in his career (why is it always so?), the great
topologist Hassler Whitney became fascinated by mathematics
education.

"Why is it always so?" Maybe it's because human beings are famously,
even notoriously, slow to mature, and interest in *effectively* passing
on what is known trumps the narrow specialist's interest in creating new
knowledge only after one has begun to mature--at, say, 50 or so for the
precocious.

This note will probably not reach all of the lists to which Professor
Hake posted it, because I don't belong to most of them. I hope that
someone will post it to the lists I don't reach directly.

--Lou Talman
Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
Metropolitan State College of Denve

<http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl>

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.