Posted in Puzzles and Paradoxes, Teaching, Tidbits on Aug 7th, 2010
Some links: The Central Limit Theorem, Edges of Graphs, and Graph Layout, (Leland Wilkinson). The Monty Hall Problem, (The New York Times). Take this question out back…, (Language Log). Finally, the great Lenny Pickett, (circa 1973). He is the one in the bow tie.
Posted in Teaching on Nov 28th, 2009
A compressed history: Not so long ago, a department of statistics was a boring place to be and a department of computer science was no place at all. It was the philosophy department–a good one, at least–which employed the mathematically inclined who were interested in scientific methodology and foundations. One legacy from this post-war era [...]
Posted in Teaching on Nov 19th, 2009
Let’s say that you are assigned to teach a graduate seminar (in a philosophy department) introducing your students to current work in Formal Epistemology. They all have a working knowledge of first order logic and a decent mathematical education as well (let’s say that, for the most part, they have algebra and calculus under their [...]
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