January 2011
4 posts
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In 1936, John Maynard Keynes wrote of the prevailing wisdom of mainstream economics, “The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except...
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belligerent ghouls run manchester schools...
Dear Mr. O’Halloran,
I don’t think it is a good idea for you to take MAT 219 next semester. The department even recommends that you take MAT 230 (Logic, Set Theory and Proofs) before you take MAT 219 (LinearAlgebra).There are topics and proofs in MAT 219 that depend on an assumed level of mathematical maturity. In the past, some students who have taken MAT 219 before MAT 230...
I'm hysterical, I'm having hysterics! I'm...
Satire has a way of exposing serious questions.
My girlfriend and I today watched The Producers (circa 1968, with Gene Wilder), when Wilder classically shouts “I’m hysterical, I’m having hysterics! I’m hysterical!” And I think it appropriately described the moment, there, being together with her for the first time in quite a while. It was incredible and I think for...