For our reading pleasure..... :

My plan is to keep here links to various texts available on-line which I find interesting. Most of them will be related to mathematics, of course. (Links to non-mathematical texts are some place else.) However, I do not plan to verify regularly if the links here are still alive etc...

Note: the items are ordered according to the date of putting them on the list (with the newest on top). Always on top:

A Mathematician's Apology by Godfrey Harold Hardy

Gauss's Day of Reckoning by Brian Hayes. From American Scientist
Journal Price Survey (1994-2004) and some tables extracted from it by Ulf Rehmann.
Pythagoras. By Robert P Crease. From PhysicsWeb
Getting in. The social logic of Ivy League admissions. By Malcolm Gladwell. From The New Yorker
Self-Discipline May Beat Smarts as Key to Success By Jay Mathews. From The Washington Post
Group Theory in the Bedroom An insomniac's guide to the curious mathematics of mattress flipping. By Brian Hayes. From American Scientist
Godel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth II A Talk with Verena Huber-Dyson. From Edge
Godel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth A Talk with Rebecca Goldstein. From Edge
Much ado about The Yellow Cake
The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by Eric Schechter
Opinion 21: The American Paradox: Why it Does Not Matter That The Average Student is so Bad At Math by Doron Zeilberger
Banned from Aleph by Kevin Wald.
The Declaration of Linear Independence by David J. Grabiner.
What is Mathematics: Godel's Theorem and Around by Karlis Podnieks.
Does research support curriculum reform? by Herbert S. Wilf as a PostScript or PDF local files.
The Future of Set Theory by Saharon Shelah (known as [Sh:g1]).
Set Theory meeting discusses - uh, well ... by Michelle Cole

Best

BEST

"Reform Calculus" Has Been a Disaster, Critics Charge by Robin Wilson (see [Wilson97]). This service is provided by Arnie Miller totally free of charge!
Student evaluations don't get a passing grade: Easy-grading professors get too-high marks, new UW study shows (an interesting article - but what really surprises me is that one needs long time and scientific research and NSF money to get to these conclusions...)

Bibliography

[Best] Michelle Cole.
Set Theory meeting discusses - uh, well..., The Idaho Statesman, March 26, 1995, Section B.

[Sh:g1] Saharon Shelah.
The Future of Set Theory, Set Theory of the Reals, Israel Mathematical Conference Proceedings vol. 6, Haim Judah, ed.

[Sh:f] Saharon Shelah.
Proper and improper forcing. Perspectives in Mathematical Logic. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998. xlviii+1020 pp.

[Wilson97] Robin Wilson.
"Reform Calculus" Has Been a Disaster, Critics Charge, The Chronicle of Higher Education; February 7, 1997; Section: The Faculty; Page: A12.

Andrzej Roslanowski

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