Tag: Wu

Assignment, due Monday, 4/4/22 (300 words minimum): We next return to a topic that we introduced earlier in the semester, Geometry. This is a subject that tends to provoke strong … Read More

Assignment, due Monday, 3/14/22: This week’s reading comes from a New York Times article This Professor’s ‘Amazing’ Trick Makes Quadratic Equations Easier. Did you know that, as a CUNY … Read More

Assignment, due Monday, 3/7/22: This week’s reading is on a crucially important (though often ignored) subject, the use of symbols in mathematics. Read the 5-page excerpt from Wu’s text and … Read More

Assignment, due Monday, 2/14/22: Read the following 3-page excerpt from the introduction of Wu’s text. In it, he is speaking directly … Read More

H. Wu is a professor at UC Berkeley and is the author of the books on which this course is based. … Read More