by Peter Francis Cassels Many people whose formal mathematical education ended in high school or early college would describe mathematics as the study of numbers and shapes. If asked further, perhaps they would spend some time recalling the tedium of performing calculations, or of solving contrived word problems which are far removed from any sort…
by Simon Xu Writing and mathematics may seem orthogonal to each other, especially to students who are taking their first heavily proof-based course. Even for some more experienced math students, including myself, who might have sensed some degree of similarities between these disciplines, it can be difficult to articulate a precise relationship. In our class…
by Erik Schreyer, Mathematics, ’18-19 The way in which we grade student papers and just as much which student papers we grade has a great impact on how students study and what students take out of a class. This of course does not come as a surprise and does not need to be debated. I…