Enterprises of great pith and moment
It has of ten been a melancholy experience to hear a cadet ask me what the point of aDDS, determinant or continuous function is. I heard similar questions when I was teaching at Rutgers. Sometimes they were asked out of genuine curiosity, but more often they have been out of sheer frustration and di...
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| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93790 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7269 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | It has of ten been a melancholy experience to hear a cadet ask me what the point of aDDS, determinant or continuous function is. I heard similar questions when I was teaching at Rutgers. Sometimes they were asked out of genuine curiosity, but more often they have been out of sheer frustration and disinterest. Indeed, there is nothing more dis-heartening than hearing skepticism about the value of your intellectual activities. |
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