[LINK] Link Digest, Vol 246, Issue 11

[Antony Broughton Barry]

On 13/05/2013, at 12:01 PM, link-request at mailman.anu.edu.au wrote:

>   1. On Doing Maths in Chinese (stephen at melbpc.org.au)

I have trouble remembering what I learnt when, but I think learnt in high school (I got first class honours in maths 1 in the NSW leaving certificate)

Differential calculus
Trigonometry
Series expansions
Euclidean and Cartesian Geometry 
and a heap of algebra

At university I picked up

Matrix algebra
Vector algebra
Differential equations
Partial differential equations
Finite geometry
Boolean logic
Number theory
Mathematical statistis
Operational research

and a heap of other stuff I've forgotten

For a while I had thought I'd be a mathematician but the really, really bright students chose maths for their honours year (one has a branch of maths named after him - Segal algebras) so I did physics instead. So did Bruce McKellar who is Professor Emeritus in theoretical physics an Melbourne University last I checked. I ended up a pretty good librarian but crikey the maths I knew always helped in my understanding of complex situations.


OK Question What maths did you all do at school? Did it help? Is maths logic writ large?

Tony