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I’ve been away from writing here a long time. Partly it is because I’m in Florence on a research workshop at the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics since three weeks, and before that I did some research as well … Continue reading →

This is just a short note to tell you that I haven’t quit thinking about mathematics. I was in the process of writing up the report when I hit upon the subject of calculus in America. There I got stuck … Continue reading →

Let me be honest. I hate marking exams. But I enjoy teaching. For me at least, teaching at the university level is the best possible job. I like the freedom of the it, I enjoy explaining things and thinking about … Continue reading →

We have started a book study group at my institute, the idea being to work our way through Finnur Lárusson’s “Lectures on Real Analysis”.  This is a really nice (and thin) Real Analysis book rigorously covering the same stuff as … Continue reading →

Dear all, I’ve been away from the typewriter for a week or two due to much teaching and end-of-term work and negotiations over a theoretical physics paper and a few other things. But the blog has anyway gone past 2000 … Continue reading →

It’s time to start to write some kind of report on my college odyssey. So I thought I should start by thanking everyone in the US that made this trip of mine such a pleasant and exciting experience. And why … Continue reading →

It never crossed my mind that there could be a connection between Calculus teaching and the Moon landing. Until I made this trip. Of course you need Calculus to calculate the trajectory for the spaceship taking you there. Before Newton … Continue reading →

In my discussions so far, I haven’t really brought up humanistic mathematics. It’s time to do that, so let me introduce it here, from a personal point of view. When I wrote to Colleges during the spring about tentative questions … Continue reading →