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| adam_text | 777 MATHEMATICAL CONVERSATION STARTERS JOHN DE PILLIS PUBLISHED AND
DISTRIBUTED BY THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA CONTENTS PREFACE
VII LEGEND VIII SAMPLER 1 CIVILITY 1 WHAT IS BAD CONVERSATION? 2 WHAT IS
GOOD CONVERSATION? 3 CONVERSATION STARTERS: A SAMPLER 3 YOU DON T NEED
TO BE A MATHEMATICIAN FOR THESE 3 YOU MIGHT WANT TO BE A MATHEMATICIAN
FOR THESE 6 IS THE COW ON THE COVER SAYING MEW OR MOO ? 9 A 10
AARDVARK 10 ABSTRACTION 11 ALGEBRA 13 ANALYTIC GEOMETRY 14 ANATOMY OF
THOUGHT: THE IMPLICATION 15 P IMPLIES Q = SUFFICIENT IMPLIES
NECESSARY 15 EXAMPLES 20 ANVIL WILLIE AND THE MONKEY S UNCLE 20 EXAMPLE
1 THE FOREIGN ACCENT 23 EXAMPLE 2 WRITING, ERASING QUICKLY 23 EXAMPLE 3
BLOCKING THE BOARD 24 ARITHMETIC 26 ASTRONOMY 27 AUTHOR .- 28 AXIOM OF
CHOICE 28 XII 777 MATHEMATICAL CONVERSATION STARTERS AXIOMS AND
DEFINITION 37 CRITICAL THINKING 37 SHERMER S TEN RULES FOR BALONEY
DETECTION 39 DEFINITIONS FOR THE SCIENTIST 40 DEFINITIONS FOR THE
NON-SCIENTIST 41 THOMAS KUHN AND THE VALUE OF DEFINITION 46 KUHN S 22
DEFINITIONS OF PARADIGM 47 ALAN SOKAL S PUCKISH HOAX 48 IMPORTANCE OF
ALAN SOKAL S CONCERNS 49 THREE REBUTTALS TO ALAN SOKAL S HOAX 49 THE
ARROGANCE OF SCIENTISTS 50 NOW FOR SOME IRONY: BELL S VALUABLE BLUNDER
51 THREE EXAMPLES OF UNAVOIDABLE AMBIGUITY 52 ARISTOTLE AND AN AVOIDABLE
AMBIGUITY 53 RADIUS OF REALITY: HUMPTY DUMPTY AND BEYOND 55 B 58 THE
BRAIN 58 BORE 59 C 61 CALCULUS 61 CERTAINTY 64 HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY
PRINCIPLE 66 COMMON SENSE 67 COMPUTERS 68 MATHEMATICS*THE HIDDEN ENGINE
68 PROGRAMMING AND THE MACHINE 69 EXTENDING COLLECTIVE MEMORY 72
INVENTIONS WITH MINDS OF THEIR OWN 73 EMBELLISHING COLLECTIVE MEMORY:
APOLLO 13, APRIL 1970 74 SYSTEM ERROR HAIKU 75 COUNTING 77 D 79
DEDUCTION VS. INDUCTION 79 DEFINITIONS FOR INDUCTION AND DEDUCTION 81
POPULAR SYNONYMS FOR INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING 82 INDUCTIVE
REASONING 82 DEDUCTIVE REASONING 82 EXAMPLES OF INDUCTION/DEDUCTION 83
POPPER S FALSIFIABILITY TEST IN SCIENTIFIC METHOD . 88 ARISTOTLE AND
TESTING 90 CONTENTS XIII WITTGENSTEIN VS. POPPER: THE POKER DEBATE 90
RELIABILITY OF EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS 92 DIMENSION 92 DISCOVERY 94 E 96
EINSTEIN 96 ELEGANCE 98 OCCAM S RAZOR (OCKHAM S RAZOR) 98 EPSILON 99
THERE S A DELTA FOR EVERY EPSILON (CALYPSO) 100 EQUATIONS 101 EUCLID 101
EULER 103 EXPERIMENTS 103 F 105 FAITH, RELIGION, AND SPIRITUALITY 105
FORMULAS 109 FOUR COLOR PROBLEM 110 FRUSTRATION AND PLEASURE 112 G 114
GEOMETRY 114 GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PARODIES 119 PERIODIC TABLE OF THE
ELEMENTS 119 I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 120 GOOD
MATHEMATICS 122 H 123 HAIR 123 HILBERT 124 HUMILITY 124 I-J 126 I S AND
J S 126 INFINITY 126 INNOCENCE 130 INQUIRY AND RESEARCH 132 INTEGERS AND
DIMENSION: BEYOND OUR REACH? 132 INTEGERS AND FRACTIONS 133 TOGGLING 135
INTEGRALS 136 INTUITION: EXAMPLES THAT CHALLENGE , 137 ALGEBRA:
SWIMMER S PROBLEM 137 XIV 777 MATHEMATICAL CONVERSATION STARTERS
ALGEBRA: THE POTATO PARADOX 139 CALCULUS: THE CELESTIAL HORN WITH
INFINITE AREA, FINITE VOLUME 140 CALCULUS: FABLE OF THE GOOD QUEEN S
NAPKIN RINGS 141 PROBABILITY: VON MISES BIRTHDAY PROBLEM 143
PROBABILITY: MONTY HALL PROBLEM 143 SWITCHING AS A TOGGLING STRATEGY 144
GEOMETRY: AN EXPANDING BELT FOR THE EARTH S WAISTLINE 147
ITERATION/RECURSION 148 K 150 KLEIN BOTTLE 150 KNOWLEDGE 152 L 155
LAPLACE 155 LOGIC AND REASON 155 GODEL S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM 156 THE
GODEL BOX 158 ANALOGY IS NOT PROOF 162 M 166 MATHEMATICIANS ARE AMUSING,
DIFFERENT, UNDERAPPRECIATED 166 MATHEMATICIANS ARE HIGHLY SKILLED 168
MATHEMATICIANS ARE UNDERSKILLED 170 MATHEMATICS AND ART 172 MATHEMATICS
AND BEAUTY 172 MATHEMATICS AND MUSIC 176 MATHEMATICS AND NATURE 177
MATHEMATICS AND POETRY . 180 MATHEMATICS AND TRUTH 183 MATHEMATICS AND
USEFULNESS/RELEVANCE 186 UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF MATHEMATICS 187
BAYES THEOREM AND SPECIOUS REASONING 190 MATHEMATICS IS AN ART 192
MATHEMATICS IS ECONOMICAL/NOT ECONOMICAL 193 MATHEMATICS IS ETERNAL 194
MATHEMATICS IS IMMUTABLE 195 MATHEMATICS IS LOGICAL: (DEDUCTIVE) 195
MATHEMATICS IS MADNESS/ADDICTIVE/IRRELEVANT 197 MATHEMATICS IS
SIMPLIFYING/UNIFYING 198 MATHEMATICS IS WIDE IN SCOPE - 201 MATHEMATICS
IS YOUTHFUL 202 CONTENTS XV METHOD 202 TIME MANAGEMENT 202 TEST FOR A
MATHEMATICIAN 203 METRIC MAXIMS 204 MOBIUS STRIP 204 N 205 NATURAL BASE
205 NATURAL NUMBERS 206 NEWTON 207 NORMAL SPACE 211 O 212 OBVIOUS 212
OFFENSIVE AND UNPOPULAR MATHEMATICS 213 P 214 PARADOX 214 THE AMAZING
BANACH-TARSKI PARADOX 215 PHYSICISTS 216 PI 217 MNEMONICS FOR THE DIGITS
OF PI 218 PLAY 219 PRIME NUMBERS 221 MERSENNE PRIMES 221 PRINCIPLES IN
MATHEMATICS 223 PROBABILITY 225 STEPHEN JAY GOULD ON THE AWESOME
CONTINUITY OF LIFE 225 PROBABILITY VS. DETERMINISM 229 PROBLEM SOLVING
230 MARK TWAIN ENCOUNTERS A WORD PROBLEM FROM ARITHMETICUS 230 PROGRESS
233 IS PROGRESS MONOTONICALLY INCREASING? 234 SCIENTISTS ON
INEVITABILITY OF PROGRESS 236 PROGRESS: THE EVOLVING VALUE OF CARROTS
237 WILL TECHNOLOGY GO AWRY? 240 PROOF 242 PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM 248
APPLICATION 1: THE PIZZA CONNECTION 249 APPLICATION 2: BREAKING THE
BONDS OF THREE DIMENSIONS 251 APPLICATION 3: PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM IN
SPECIAL RELATIVITY 253 XVI 777 MATHEMATICAL CONVERSATION STARTERS
APPLICATION 4: MICHELSON-MORLEY S VALUABLE FAILURE 260 OTHER VIEWS ON
THE SPEED OF LIGHT 269 Q 271 Q.E.D. MADE EASY 271 R 274
REALITY-PLATONISM 274 RELATIVITY 276 S 278 SCIENCE 278 SETS 282
STATISTICS 283 STYLE 284 SYMBOLS 284 DECIMAL NOTATION 285 SYSTEMS 287 T
288 TEACHING 288 TEACHING THAT FAME IS A WORTHY ACHIEVEMENT 291 THE R.
L. MOORE METHOD 293 THINKING 295 TOPOLOGY 296 TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBERS 297
TRANSFMITE NUMBERS 299 U 300 UNITS 300 UNIVERSITY DENIZENS 300
USEFULNESS 307 V 308 VALENTINES . 308 VIRUS 309 VOCABULARY 310 VON
NEUMANN AND THE FLY 311 W 313 WASHINGTON 313 WIENER 315 X-Y-Z 316 X 316
ZERO 317 NOTE: THE STARLIGHT CAF6 319 INDEX OF TOPICS AND AUTHORS - 321
INDEX OF CARTOONS 343
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