ts: old math vs new math

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mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

overthrow the reactionary colour rigidity of the cuisenaire rod!!

mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Rods are great! You can build houses and stuff maths.

Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 9 December 2002 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

why is ten orange? that suXors

mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

OLD MATHS!!!

I do not know why, but if someone can point me towards a reason why, I'll argue to the teeth.

Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 December 2002 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Have they changed the colour coding since the early 60's, or is it just my crappy old memory?

Now if they'd had something like these for teaching differential equations, then, well.......things might have turned out different.
I expect it's all done with computers these days, of course.

Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

new maths!!

bourbaki = v classic indeed. i wd have said dud until about 2 years ago when i started reading that kinda shit; even more classic = EGA/SGA. grothendieck = greatest mathematician of 20th C, obv.

i cd go on about this for ages but i have just this moment arrived in manhattan, and i'm damned if i'm going to spend my few days away from maths talking about french mathematicians from the 60s...

toby (tsg20), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)


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