George Jones
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George Jones
@georgeljones.bsky.social
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Taught more than 3 dozen different physics, math, and engineering courses in my career.
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Wearing face-concealing masks - seems like it's the same folks who are kidnapping people off US streets.
2/2 The book Mathematics for Physics and Physicists by Appel has a higher level of mathematical rigour than is typical, which makes it very appealing as a read for me. I doubt that it is appropriate for a US/Canada course. Read the praise link (if interested) at
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Mathematics for Physics and Physicists
press.princeton.edu
1/2 I used Boas for an undergrad mathematical methods course that I taught at WVU in 2003. Afrken was the text for the grad course at the time. I liked Boas, but it might not be at a high enough level for your course.
Daughter just turned 19, and is in second-year uni. Drama hasn't ended. 🤣
Learned fortran long ago in high school. 3 days for each (attempt at a ) run of a program. Cards sent by bus to nearest uni, program run on computer, cards sent by bus back to high school. Had an amazing teacher; CS grad from U Waterloo. We worked on several projects at once, so we we always busy.
Doesn't seem light a bright idea to me.
Temperature here 6 days ago
"I have been in the PI business"
Pun intended?
What happens in Vegas ...
Example: My 19-y-o Canadian daughter ticks? I am white. My white father moved to Canada from the UK at 14. My mother's father is french Quebecois. My wife is brown. She moved from Pakistan to Nigeria when she was 14, and from Nigeria to Canada when she was 17. Daughter speaks English, French Urdu.
I like South Asian spicy. When ordering, I point to my Pakistani wife and say "I like it spicier than she does."

Wife's father's friend said to wife's father " What does George eat when he stays with you?" Wife's father's reply "George eats what we eat."
Woke up to this sad news.
2/2 But I agree that the influence needs to be earlier - more female elementary school teachers who are confident with math.
1/2 Role models matter. Anecdotal evidence: my wife's mother was a high school maths teacher in Pakistan, my wife is a high school maths teacher here in BC Canada, and now our daughter, who just finished 1st-year uni, wants to be a high school maths teacher.
The investigative journalist Catherine Heathcote from the 2008 mini-series Place of Execution.
Stayed up reading an Icelandic murder mystery until the Moon reached its "highest" elevation. Wow! So low. Murder mystery, eerie full Moon - had to look under the bed before I went to sleep.
2/2 Kate Owens: "When you finish a PhD in mathematics, they take you to a special room and explain that i isn't the only imaginary number - turns out that all the numbers are imaginary, even the one that are real."
1/2 It is common for folks to say "the imaginary numbers are just as real as the real numbers", when really it should be something like "the real numbers are just as imaginary as the imaginary numbers."
I got married late in life, but when I did marry (22 years ago), it was to a brown, Pakistani woman. trilingual (English, French, Urdu) daughter looks more Pakistani than gora.
Too much of a hassle to track the tassel.
This is horrible!

I hope the "rules" get sorted before the 2026 soccer World Cup.
And a teenager's foot doesn't. My wife "performed the experiment" on our daughter.
Murder mysteries. Two of my favourites are Lewis (have most of it on DVD) and Vera. Star Trek TOS (from when I was a kid); have it all on DVD.