In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- & discusses how we might...
TEDxManhattanBeach - John Bennett - Why Math Instruction Is Unnecessary
Talk title: Why math instruction is unnecessary John is a teacher of math and a homeschooling parent who offers a radical-sou...
www.ted.com Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems formulating them. At TEDx...
Complete video at: fora.tv Neurologist Lise Eliot addresses the claim that boys tending to surpass girls in the fields of math and engineering. Eliot argues that genetic differences play no role and a...
The sociology of economists (young phds); real world vs. math; political economy (visible vs. invisible victims); sunk costs redux; expected utility; sustainability; vs. subsistence; soccer is a stoch...
Notes on transport, markets vs. bureaucracy, more on the walkout, math v. econ, utility, collective action, information (Hayek 44), incentives in markets v. monopolies/bureaucracies
Amath course for life science majors covering elementary probability, probability distributions, random variables, and limit theorems. Lecturer: Herbert Enderton, Ph.D., Harvard University. Dr. Endert...