Part of the joy of the winter break is that it’s a chance to read something longer than twenty pages. I spent part of it reading Cathy O’Neil’s “Weapons of Math Destruction,” which is well worth ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The idea of “reflection” is one of several Euclidean motions in a plane that are studied in ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 426-440 (15 pages) Following Matthew Lipman (Lipman, 1991; Lipman, Sharp, & Oscanyan, 1980), we ...

Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it’s central to much of mathematics. When representation theory emerged in the late 19th century, many mathematicians questioned its worth. In ...