Unanswered Questions
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Examples of multiple induction
It is easy to find/construct cases that can be proven by nested induction, i.e., some variation of the theme to prove the statement $P(m, n)$ you prove $P(1, n)$ by induction as a base case for $m$, ...
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What is a less anglo-centric collection of persons than Andy, Beth, Carl, Debby and Earl?
These five imagined persons have accompanied me for some time. We've had a bunch of laughs and a few tears. I love them dearly. That said, I'd like to retire them in favor of a more culturally diverse ...
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What evidence is there in the literature that lessons geared towards dyslexic student help non-dyslexic students?
Dyslexic students sometimes benefit from informal analogies to things in the world which the student can see with their eyes, and/or touch with their hands.
Tentatively, we can conjecture that ...
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Examples of Financial Institutions that Compute Interest Atypically?
Are there examples of financial institutions that compound their interest more frequently than once-a-month? Are there examples of financial institutions that consider continually compounded interest ...
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Are there any fun toy applications of representation and character theory for finite groups to physics?
Representation theory has very deep ties with physics, leading to incredibly profound and admittedly cool results such as the classification of particles in the Standard Model via mass and spin by ...
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The propagation of the wave equation in even versus odd dimension
I am about to teach a second year undergraduate class on applied differential equation (first time) and, while I won't have time to go into the details, I wanted to show my students the difference ...
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Do you avoid examples or test questions that showcase an algorithmic plug'n'chug approach?
If we accept that there's not much learning from doing the "same" questions, like find the derivative of $x^2$, and $x^3$, and $x^4$ due to the algorithmic way of how it's done, then what ...