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Joel Reyes Noche
Joel Reyes Noche
3:09 AM
"I do it to make mathematicians cry." smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2675
 
 
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Gerhard Paseman
Gerhard Paseman
4:45 PM
Hi. Want to help out an unregistered user? (That's me).
I am able to do most things. However, I get a 404 when I try to "finish signing up for my account", and there seems to be no easy way to bypass that. However, registering is not that important to me.
What is important is answering kcrismans meta question "Who is MESE for?". I have an answer, but can't post it (likely because I'm not registered on this forum. So anyone willing to cut and paste the text below to post as an answer will have my long-lived gratitude.
Let's see if this buffer can hold this. Begin Text:
I suggest populating the forum with questions that others would like to ask, but haven't. Let me list a few (which may have been asked before, in which case there should be links and updates to the earlier versions).

1. What are good resources for Mathematics Educators in area X?
Here X can range over audience types, common subjects taught, major educational schools (as in IBL, directed format, Montessori; I am not a professional educator, so forgive my ignorance in this regard). I recommend X have at most twenty types, and that the answers include non-online formats, e.g. professional…
End Text. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Gerhard "Depending On Kindness Of MathEducators" Paseman, 2015.09.22
 
 
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isomorphismes
isomorphismes
6:24 PM
I want to share an idea but I can't find that anyone's asked a question about it yet.
Euclidean and taxicab metrics are usually used to introduce metric spaces, but I think chess pieces are a little better. Each chess piece has its own metric associated with it; some things are "closer for a Knight" although most things are "closer for a Queen".
This is a bit confusing if captures change the metric (does that maek it a groupoid?) space, but I think the benefit of getting several interesting, different metrics at once makes it a good example.
You can draw the "Knight's circle" as well to colour the idea of "radius 1" with a little different example.
 

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