Re: [HM] First incommensurables, Theaetetus, etc
Martin Davis (martind@cs.berkeley.edu)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:27:30 -0800
At 08:33 PM 12/26/98, Gordon Fisher wrote:
>
>Along these lines, I remember also Al Tucker struggling to prevent eager
>young teachers from teaching theory of functions of real variables to
>freshmen when I was doing post-doctoral work at Princeton about 1960.
>
In 1948 when I was a graduate student at Princeton, Emil Artin warned
graduate student instructors: "Please do not torture the students with
absolute value."
Martin Davis