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22nd Dec 2012
Oh man, how has this not been mentioned yet?
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
This same guy wrote a book that I just recently bought and am cracking open tomorrow on a long bus ride: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674057554
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9th Jan 2014
You will love this then:
http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/0674057554 (There’s a small video in the description.)
And stuff like this, in general: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIVIegSt81k
That is real mathematics IMO. In fact I think fun and wonder is an essential part of it.
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24th Dec 2012
In case you were serious: I bet you the price of this book, that it is:
http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/0674057554/
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