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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Mathmatics
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <1992Dec22.211716.7065@primerd.prime.com> <1992Dec23.065430.29519@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:28:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.065430.29519@leland.Stanford.EDU> ilan@leland.Stanford.EDU (ilan vardi) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.211716.7065@primerd.prime.com> jasonp@bungie.prime.com (Jason Pascucci) writes:
- >>Hi,
-
- >>Yes, this might be a strange request, however please
- >>indulge me.
-
- >>I would like to obtain the firm grasp of 'higher-math'
- >>without spending time in school for a Doctorate in Mathmatics.
-
-
- >It's not a strange request at all. As a matter of fact, some guy asked
- >the same thing some time ago and got the response ``there is no royal
- >road to geometry'' or words to that effect.
-
- This is reputed to be Aristotle's remark to Alexander, Prince of
- Macedon, soon to become Alexander the Great.
-
- But on the other hand, typically less than half of the time spent
- in graduate school for a doctorate is spent in getting basic
- mathematics. Unfortunately, too often not enough breadth is
- covered, or even available. Also, in most universities, little
- time in the undergraduate program is spent on other than routine
- manipulation; most calculus courses, for example, spend less than
- a month, it that much, on anything else.
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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