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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Integration Was: Re: Student attitudes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.182743.15553@galois.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec10.212140.5483@massey.ac.nz> <Bz3MMq.5At@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <PCG.92Dec14175129@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 18:27:43 GMT
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- In article <PCG.92Dec14175129@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
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- >I am not a mathematician, but I cannot keep my trap shout on this. The
- >usual way I explain integrals is:
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- Integration is a purely formal exercise in which a formula is
- transformed into another formula, using particularly odd rules.
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- Actually, this sounds like a nonmathematician's definition of
- "mathematics"! :-)
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