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 Einstein - Education is not the learning of facts. It's rather the training of the mind to think.
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“All men by nature desire knowledge.” Aristotle’sMetaphysic

Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

To Teach is to Touch Lives Forever. (Barbara Chiantia)

Let my teaching fall like rain
    and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
    like abundant rain on tender plants. 
Deuteronomy 32:2 (NIV)

Teaching (《师说》)

@Culture Critic The seven liberal arts were traditionally divided into three humanities and four sciences. Grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric were the humanities; hūmānitātēs meant something like “cultivations,” “refinements,” even “courtesies.” Arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy were the scientiæ, the sciences (all, even music, were studied mainly in mathematical terms).

Grammar is the plainest. In antiquity, grammar meant more than what’s covered by Schoolhouse Rock. It included parts of speech and tenses and when to say “and I”; but its standard material was the classical poets, especially Homer. Its province hardly differs from the subject of English (as we used to call it). Grammar teaches us how to talk in the basic sense — how to comprehend and convey ideas.

Dialectic is logic, especially deductive logic. It isn’t exactly what we call “critical thinking”; they’re related, but that’s an umbrella term — it also covers certain aspects of both rhetoric and the scientific method. Dialectic tells you when reasoning is cogent, when it is uncertain, and when it is dead wrong. Having learnt from grammar how to talk, dialectic teaches you to talk sense.

And thirdly, rhetoric. Rhetoric brings in the ethical, social, emotional, and aesthetic elements of speech; it teaches us how to be not only clear and cogent, but captivating. Rhetoric, because it has come after dialectic, is ideally placed to help us persuade in an honest way, uniting sound reasoning with appropriate feeling.

You might think of it as the humanities as making you pleasant to talk with, while the sciences give you something to talk about.

君子六艺： 礼、乐、射、御、书、数。

 Resources

My Paired-Reading Program

 

Fall 2024:


Undergraduate Research Center Newsletter - August 2024: Doing Undergraduate Research while getting paid!

Spring 2024

  • Analysis I: 
  • Differential Equations II 

Fall 2023 

  • Theory of Calculus
  • Differential Equations I

Spring 2023

  • Differential Equations II
  • Calculus II

 

I took a sabbatical leave in Fall 2020. 

  • Problems in Contemporary Mathematics
  • Differential Equations II
  • Analysis I
  • Problems in Mathematics: Analysis (Independent Study)
  • Differential Equations I
  • Theory of Calculus
  • Calculus III: D2L
  • Differential Equations I: D2L
  • Differential Equations I: Math 3120-002
  • Differential Equations II (with Honors Contract): Math 3260-001
  • Differential Equations I: Math 3120-002
  • Calculus II: Math 1920-001
  • Applied Calculus I: Math 1810
  • College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sc: Math 1630-009, 1630-010
  • Differential Equations I: Math 3120
  • Advanced Differential Equations I: Math 6260
  • Analysis II: Math 6200
  • Mathematical Biology Seminar

Applied Statistics: Math 1530

  • Differential Equations I: Math 3120-001
    • General Info
    • Teaching Material
    • Homework
      • HW 1 (10pts): section 1.1: 10, 12, 16. section 1.2: 7, 8, 12, 24, 28.
      • HW 2 (10pts): section 1.3: 1, 2, 3. section 2.2: 7, 15, 12, 9. section 2.3: 6, 7, 15, 20, 22, 23.
      • HW 3 (10pts): section 2.4: 1, 4, 9, 11, 12, 20. section 3.2: 1, 3.
      • HW 4 (10pts): section 3.4: 1, 6. section 1.4: 1, 3.
      • HW 5: section 4.2: 1, 4, 7, 8, 15, 16. section 4.3: 3, 4, 23, 22. section 4.4: 13, 14, 27, 28, 31.
      • HW 6: section 4.5: 19, 32, 34, 36. section 4.6: 1, 4.
      • HW 7: section 5.2: 1, 10. section 5.4: 3, 10, 28.
      • HW 8: section 7.2: 6, 10, 14, 16, 18. section 7.3: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10.
      • HW 9: section 7.4: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. 22, 23, 25. Section 7.5: 1, 38.
      • HW 10: section 7.6: 1, 5, 11, 25, 29.
  • Differential Equations II: Math 3260-001
    • General Info
    •  Homework
      • HW 1 (10pts): section 10.2: 17, 16, 21, 23, 28. section 10.3: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11
      • HW 2: (10pts) section 10.3: 17, 19. section 10.4: 5, 7. section 10.5: 3.
      • Group Work 1 from Powers' book.
      • HW 3: section 10.5: 17. section 10.6: 7.
      • HW 4: section 10.6: 15, Group Work 2: Power's book problem. section 10.7: 7.
      • HW 5: section 10.7: 15, 21.
      • HW 6: section 11.2: 5, 7, 13, 19. section 11.3: 3, 9 (group work)
      • HW 7: section 11.4: 3, 7, 17; section 11.5: 5, 9.
      • HW 8: section 11.6: 3. Section 8.2: 1, 27, 31, 35. Section 8.3: 5, 19, 29.
      • HW 9: Section 8.4: 3, 9. section 8.5: 7. section 8.6: 5, 13, 21.
  • Analysis I
  • Differential Equations I
  • Theory of Calculus
  • Analysis II
  • Applied Statistics
  • Calculus II
  • Analysis I
  • Calculus III
  • Theory of Calculus
  • Honors Mathematics for General Studies 
  • Calculus I (MATH 1910-003) 
  • Calculus I (Math 1910-007)
  • Calculus II (MATH 1920-002)
  • Calculus II (Math 1920-003)
  • Data Analysis
  • Calculus I (MATH 1910-001) and Calculus I (Math 1910-007)
  • Plane Trigonometry
  • Applied Calculus I
  • Plane Trigonometry
  • Applied Calculus I (MATH 1810-002 and 003)
  • Calculus I (MATH 1910-002)
  • Calculus I (Math 1910-003)