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Are you simply trolling or just so cynical that you can't read about some people having fun with mathematics on computers on a site called Hacker News without f
by cedilla 2y ago
Are you simply trolling or just so cynical that you can't read about some people having fun with mathematics on computers on a site called Hacker News without feeling the need to insult a whole discipline and building strawmen?
I don't know what you think the "math education problem" is, but I guarantee that being nasty to people is not the way to solve it.
- dh2022 2y agoI agree with the parent poster. A blog post seems more appropriate for these types of fun (math-related) activities. The Try Things on Your Own sections seems more appropriate for middle-schoolers / high-schoolers than University students/professors. At least this was not supported by an NSF grant (There are problems more deserving of NSF grants than approximating pi with square blocks.)
- nxobject 2y agoI don’t think the arXiv makes any claim to require a minimum level of originality or contribution to the state of the art, beyond “write it up as a paper in full academic prose and it can’t just be a proposal”, especially in a history and overview subsection dedicated to exposition. The authors have a pretty good claim for getting published in an expository journal like, say, the MAA Monthly. (Also, I don’t think this is any surprise to you, but an NSF proposal requires engagement with the literature, and a statement of contributions.)