Monthly Archives: December 2007

Redundancy

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More fun with exams

On a recent calculus exam, I included the following “gag” problem the solution of which is a popular tee-shirt at the Komplexify University campus: a BHSU student.   (Bone Head State University, or BHSU, is the cross-county rival institution of … Continue reading

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Best. Colloquium. Ever.

This afternoon’s Math Colloquium discussed how numerical interpolation methods,  with the help of  modern computer algebra systems, could be used as a unifying idea behind several seemingly disconnected topics in numerical analysis.   The problem, the speaker pointed out, was … Continue reading

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Fun with exams

For the fun of it, the last problem of my take-home recent take-home Advanced Calculus exam read Problems from a liberal arts Advanced Calculus exam: (a) Spell Weierstrass. (b) For whom is the Cauchy Criterion named? (c) Cite an anecdote … Continue reading

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