Blog comment: Two and two make three - by @ThePlasticHippo
08 Mar 10 06:47 Filed in: Comment | Comment-Walsall
Two and two make three
The Plastic Hippo 8 Mar 10
The great Tom Lehrer, acclaimed mathematician as well as possibly the wisest American satirists of the last century, did not care for modern mathematical teaching methods. “In the new approach,” he said, “the important thing is to understand what you’re doing, rather than get the right answer.” Professor Lehrer allegedly gave up writing witty lampoons on hearing that Henry Kissinger had been offered a Nobel Peace Prize saying that such news meant that political satire was dead. Now in retirement, a quick look at Walsall’s books might make him want to give up mathematics as well...
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