Math Appreciation Fall 2007

Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than the squarerootofminusone. Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to mostpeople? The cultured aristocrat yanked out of his hyperexclusively ultravoluptuous superpalazzo,and dumped into an incredibly vulgar detentioncamp swarming with every conceivable species of undesirable organism. Mostpeople fancy a guaranteed birthproof safetysuit of nondestructible selflessness. If mostpeople were to be born twice they'd improbably call it dying—

e e cummings

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The Worksheet for 9/20 is in the Week4 folder labeled Parabolic. If this webpage is not updated you should still look in the folder for updates.

Week1 8/22 thru 9/1            Week2 9/2 thru 9/8             Week3 9/9 thru 9/15

Week4 9/16 thru 9/22          Week5 9/23 thru 9/29 Week6 9/30 thru 10/6

Week7 10/7 thru 10/13       Week8  10/14 thru 10/20  Week9  10/21 thru 10/27

Week10 10/28- 11/3 Week11  11/4 thru 11/10    Week12  11/11 thru 11/17

Thanksgiving Week13 11/25 thru 12/1      Week14    12/2 thru 12/8