Posted by: cwlh on: 31/12/2006
On his blog for Wednesday, 27th December 2006 entitled AHA Moments, the Three Rs and Dyslexia, Alexandre Borovik writes about learning to read:
The transition from а non-reading illiterate state to fluent reading happened in me in one click….The principal reason why I am writing my book is that feeling of AHA which I first [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 23/12/2006
I have speculated in this blog before about the split on Philosophy Weblogs between the non-overlapping categories of Philosopher and Student. I was reminded of this division again lately by two interactions.
The first is from Philip Petit’s essay Existentialism, Quietism and Philosophy which I mentioned in my last entry. Petit says:
…Many questions that I [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 16/12/2006
I’m reading Brian Leiter’s rather subtly entitled The Future For Philosophy. Note that this is not The Future OF Philosophy but rather the future FOR it. Not that most of the articles seem to bear much relationship to the book’s title. There are several interesting articles therein but the one on which I’ve spent the [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 10/12/2006
On his blog Shtetl-Optimized (note spelling of “optimised”), Scott Aaronson has announced the winner of the 2006 Shtetl-Optimized Math Journalism Award—this is admittedly the first such award but no doubt, over the years, it will increase in importance to become a sort of Pulitzer Prize for Maths Journalists. The award has gone to Ben Moore [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 09/12/2006
Well, as a result of my last blog I’ve learned a lot about publishing. One of the comments on that blog led me to Lulu and since then a bit of googling has found Café Press and others.
These are all self-publishing houses, printing individual copies of books on demand. This seems to resolve the issue [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 02/12/2006
Many, many years ago I determined that there were many aspects of mathematics taught either at university or not at all that should be accessible to an interested high-school student. I further felt that many of these concepts were actually more interesting, and possibly more useful, than a lot of the maths that is taught [...]
