January 19, 2001

Loving Math Infinitely

By JOSEFINA ALVAREZ

Six years ago, I taught for the first time a course on mathematics appreciation for nonscience majors. I remember having mixed feelings of excitement and apprehension before the course began. Until then, I had taught future engineers and scientists. They sometimes grumbled a little, but they accepted mathematics as an inevitable part of their academic life.

Very early in my first semester of teaching mathematics appreciation, I realized that nothing I had tried in my previous 25 years

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