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The hope of the Critique of the Diagonal Method was that math teachers would realize the many flaws of the method and do a better job of pr...

I finished reading David Foster Wallace's everything and more [ See Notes ]. The story provides an extremely one sided view of history ...

This quote is from a blurb that appeared in yahoo about an Alabama Judge who defiantly had a large statue of the 10 Commandments at the cou...

First off, I believe that Rational and Irrational numbers are different things. For the reasons I express in Rich Theory , I believe that th...

My presentation on transfinite theory did not go quite as well I would have hoped. Of course, this was the first time I tried my hand at pu...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that companies started hiring again. There was positive growth in the number of employed and a drop in ...

The Night of a Thousand Dinners had a good showing. There was about 150 people. The night featured middle east dancing, and everyone had a...

I wasted a day and a half reading the new Harry Potter and I now have a Harry Potter head ache. Winter's hit Salt Lake with a vengea...

Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!! I hate modern computer companies. A month or so ago, I installed QuickTime to watch a movie. Today, I need to view...

The community sites really don't seem to be attracting any attention. So I thought I would turn my thoughts back to mathematics. In ...