On 30 January 2014 12:34, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:07:08PM +1300, LizR wrote: > > On 30 January 2014 12:11, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> > wrote: > > > > > Yes. Pity the poor blighters at high school if someone tried to teach > > > them this stuff. I remember someone once showed me the definition of > > > continuity in year 11 (with all the upside down As and back to frount > > > Es), and it nearly did my head in. Of course, that is part and parcel > > > of the 2nd year introduction to analysis course :). > > > > > > > My son (15) is rather keen on summing infinite series now, after I showed > > him the -1/12 demonstration. I am wondering whether to introduce him to > > modal logic and the other things Bruno is trying to teach me (then he can > > do the exercises :) > > > > Hard to say without knowing your son. If he's into Multiverses, then > Kripke semantics might engage him. Goedel's theorem is nice and simple > from provability theory. I'd probably steer clear of the AUDA, though, > at least at first :). > > He's read quite a few books by Raymond Smullyan... > The main thing is to avoid rigour, IMHO. Go for things that might be > explainable at a cocktail party (using a serviette at most). There's > plenty of time for rigour later, if that's his bent. > Yes, agreed. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
