Tag: Freeman Dyson

• Was new maths really such a disaster?

  On holiday now, so I fill my time – as you do – by reading books on maths. One of these is Julian Havil’s Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant. The book begins with a foreword by Freeman Dyson, in which he discusses the general failure, as he sees it (and I’d be inclined to agree), of…

  Adrian McMenamin

  July 28, 2014

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  Education, Freeman Dyson, gamma, Julian Harvil, mathematics, new maths, Rote learning