Some Thoughts on the Teaching of Mathematics -- ten years later
Abstract
I describe some deep-seated problems in higher mathematical education, and give some ideas for their solution -- I advocate a move away from the traditional introduction of mathematics through calculus, and towards computation and discrete mathematics.
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