A Mathematician's Lament, often referred to informally as Lockhart's Lament, is a short book on mathematics education by Paul Lockhart, originally a research...
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A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy which defends the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake. Central to Hardy's...
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became known for writing the internet sensation, and later book, A Mathematician's Lament), the Rhythm and Hues Studios co-founder Keith Goldfarb (bass guitar...
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(Birkhäuser, Cham, 2016) pp. 71–89. online Paul Lockhart (2009). A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative...
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reform ideas, rigor (introducing ideas at a younger age), and a leaner math curriculum. A Mathematician's Lament Education in the United States Jo Boaler...
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unit quickly degenerates into a self-pitying lament over his own career disappointments. McCoy warns Kirk that he sees a psychotic episode coming, and...
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in support of Lament with a performance in Diksmuide, Belgium.[citation needed] Bargeld's guitars of choice are a Fender Jaguar and a Fender Mustang...
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interminably, and it would have been a civil war. ... So I am sacrificing our interests to those of our country. ...Do not lament my fate; if I have agreed to...
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Leonardo da Vinci (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
1519 at the age of 67, possibly of a stroke. Francis I had become a close friend. Vasari describes Leonardo as lamenting on his deathbed, full of repentance...
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Naomi Watts (category Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
ownership of a painting by Georges de La Tour with the family of Charles-Henri's lover. Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "C" rating and lamented Watts's...
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microcontinuity in developing a transparent definition of uniform continuity, and characterize Hrbacek's criticism as a "dubious lament". At the 1908 international...
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original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2020. Harris, Michael (2013). Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery. Toronto: McClelland...
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April 2008, retrieved 25 February 2009 Devlin, Keith (2008), Lockhart's Lament, Mathematical Association of America, archived from the original on 10 May...
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Alexander von Humboldt (redirect from A. von. Humboldt)
government. Humboldt's brother, Wilhelm, died on 8 April 1835. Alexander lamented that he had lost half of himself with the death of his brother. Upon the...
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childhood, "I lament that I was born to poverty, and in this chaos of childhood, seventeen years passed before I caught any inspiration ... a precious 17...
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Zhang Heng (redirect from Zhang Heng (Astronomer and Mathematician))
dynasty, Guangwu. In Zhang Heng's poem "Four Sorrows", he laments that he is unable to woo a beautiful woman due to the impediment of mountains, snows...
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Antoine Lavoisier (redirect from A.-L. Lavoisier)
importance to science was expressed by Lagrange who lamented the beheading by saying: "Il ne leur a fallu qu'un moment pour faire tomber cette tête, et...
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2017, in her first column for The Guardian since the commutation, Manning lamented that Obama's political opponents consistently refused to compromise, resulting...
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Qu Yuan writes the poem "Lament for Ying" after the fall of the capital of Chu. Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Greek mathematician and philosopher and friend...
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use of fossil fuels during the Biden administration. Thunberg further lamented that activists and teenagers are needed in order to bring awareness about...
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Edward Waring (category 18th-century English mathematicians)
Waring showed a good knowledge of continental mathematicians such as Alexis Clairaut, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Euler. He lamented the fact that in...
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In that adventure, he reestablished ties with Tintin, and was shown to lament changes in the behaviour of the Arumbayas, namely the spread of alcoholism...
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honorary Doctorate, Walker is now remembered in his mother's Manx Gaelic lament on her sons: "Illiam Walker as Robin Tear". The more formal history of education...
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source on the Florentine court lamented that "the Jesuits acted as if they were in charge". The co-regents did abolish a century old law in 1623 to allow...
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Columbia High School in Maplewood." McGlone, Peggy. "Eiditor's memoir laments out-of-touch fashion industry", Star Tribune, October 8, 1995. Accessed...
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Pyramidology (section Joseph A. Seiss)
criticism of the pyramidology assumptions on a mass media, the newspaper Gazette de Lausanne, lamenting that "these speculations didn't deserve the resonance...
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began early in life, with her father, Agostino Lama, training her as a mathematician and artist. At the time, Venice discouraged women from studying the...
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Dynasty undertakes its next traditional transfer of power in "The Mathematician's Ghost": a new Dawn is decanted, the current Dawn is elevated to Day, the...
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Orion only after being tricked by Apollo into thinking him a sea monster—she then laments his death and searches for Orion in the underworld until he...
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Martin Gardner (category 20th-century American mathematicians)
He recalls how as a young boy a math teacher had scolded him for working on a bit of recreational mathematics and laments at how wrongheaded this attitude...
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