Timeline for What should we teach to liberal arts students who will take only one math course?
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| Jul 8, 2012 at 21:13 | comment | added | kjetil b halvorsen | " I've known many otherwise fine mathematicians who had a blind spot as far as probability was concerned. " Yes. and recently I think I have seen what makes for their problems: They get hanged up with the measure theory! Some people have only seen the measure theory defition of conditional probability, and get problems when they see an expression like $\text{E}(X | Y)$! | |
| Apr 25, 2011 at 14:49 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | Precisely: probability is not trivial. I've known many otherwise fine mathematicians who had a blind spot as far as probability was concerned. And though the formalism necessary is very small, a good command of set notation is ultimately desirable if not indispensable to reason efficiently. So I'm not too sure that this would work. | |
| Jun 22, 2010 at 20:14 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jun 20, 2010 at 5:22 | comment | added | Matt | I think this would actually reinforce the idea that "math is solved" rather than expose people to genuinely new mathematical concepts that open the door to the amazingly huge sea of math concepts and problems that have not been figured out. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 20:57 | vote | accept | Michael Hardy | ||
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| Jun 19, 2010 at 11:34 | history | answered | Michael Greinecker | CC BY-SA 2.5 |