Martin Flashman
Recent (and not so
Recent)
Stuff
- "What is A Number?" HSU Faculty Lecturer Series, April 19, 2012.
- "Newton Estimates the Natural
Logarithm of 2: A History
Lesson for Calculus II." JMM,
Boston, MA. January 06, 2012.
- "Visualizing Linearity: Alternatives to Lines and Planes." Occidental College Math Department
Colloquium. LA. CA, November 21, 2011.
- "Square
Roots:
Adding Philosophical Contexts and Issues to Enhance
Understanding." JMM, New Orleans, January 8, 2011
(pdf)
- "Two
Different
Approaches
to Getting Students Involved in Writing Proofs ."
(.pdf conversion- in part)JMM, New Orleans, January 07,
2011 (pdf)
- "The
History
of Logarithms:A glimpse of some highlights."
Occidental
College Colloquium, LA, CA. November 23, 2010
- "The
Articulation
of
Mathematics-A
Pragmatic/Constructive Approach to The
Philosophy of Mathematics." JMM, San Francisco,
Jan.14, 2010.
- "Which
Came
First?
The Philosophy, the History, or the Mathematics?"
Mathfest 2009, Portland Oregon, August 6, 2009
- Visualizing
Linear
Functions
with
and without Graphs! (Power
Point
Presentation)
Saturday October 25,
2008 CMCFN Conference, Arcata, CA
- Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics.
MAA Minicourse #13 January 6 and 8, 2008.
San
Diego,
CA.
- "What
Place
Does
Philosophy
Have in Teaching Mathematics?" Preliminary
report. (.ppt file) MAA Jan. 6,
2007
- "Real Numbers: Models and The Proof of The
Continuum
Hypothesis " (.ppt file) Math Dept. Colloquium, CSU
Sacramento,
November 9, 2006.
- "Math and Music" (.ppt file) Presentation
at
MESA,Cabrillo College, Sept. 14, 2006.
- "Life on a Torus:Some of the Mathematics from the World of
Pacman", CSUMB Colloquium, Sept. 15, 2006
- "Mathematics,
Music,
and
the
Guitar" (.ppt file).", Occidental
College Colloquium, April 21, 2006.
- "Dynamic Visualization of Calculus I-III " CSU Dominguez
Hills
Mathematics Colloquium, March 1, 2006
- "Visualizing
Partial
Derivatives
without
Graphs." MAA Jan. 14, 2006 (Power
point)
- "The
Square
Root
of
2,
Pi, and the King of France: Ontological and
Epistemological Issues Encountered(and Ignored) in
Introductory
Mathematics Courses.." MAA Jan. 12, 2006 (Power point)
- "The Incredible Number 7 " Occidental College
Colloquium
(Power Point Presentation) Sept.
16,
2005
- "Winplot
-Freeware for Pre-calculus through Calculus III and
Differential
Equations" CMC3 Dec. 3, 2004
- "Estimating Integrals Using
Polynomials:A Tale of Two Problems (and a
little history
as well)
Eureka High School, May 27,2004
- Winplot 2 Hour Workshop at AMATYC
Conference, Salt Lake City,
Nov. 15, 2003
- "Winplot
-Freeware for Pre-calculus through Calculus III and
Differential
Equations"
ICTCM Nov. 2, 2002
- "Using
Probability to Understand Calculus ", MAA Jan. 7, 2002
- "The
Continuum Hypothesis: A Look at the History of
the Real
Numbers
in The Second Millennium. ", MAA Jan. 7, 2002
- Technology
and the History of Mathematics
ICTCM 12 Nov. 6,
1999
- Dynamic Visualization of PreCalculus and Calculus
Concepts
with Geometer's
Sketchpad (AMATYC
Workshop). Nov. 5, 1998
- "Dynamic
Visualization of Calculus I-III with The Geometers'
Sketchpad"
Mathfest
'98.
- UMAP Editorial (1990) 11 :
93-96. A
Sensible
Calculus.
- "Differential
Equations:
A
Motivating
Theme
for
Sensible Calculus." An unpublished paper
related to one theme of the Sensible Calculus.
I welcome your comments on it.
- HSU Math Dept. Colloquia:
- "The
Articulation
of
Mathematics:
An Everyperson Pragmatic/Constructive
Approach to The Philosophy of Mathematics" April 8,
2010
- "Visualizing
Linearity:
Alternatives
to
Line Graphs" (.ppt
file), September 3, 2009
- "Models,
Numbers,
and
Measure
Theory:
The Independence of The Continuum
Hypothesis. In memory of my mentor, Jean van Heijenoort",(.ppt
file)
Sept. 2, 2004
- "The Door Swings Both Ways:: Making Calculus Sensible with
Economics or
Economics Sensible with Calculus", December
11, 2003
- "Mathematics
Beyond
Good
and
Evil:
Duality in Geometry, Algebra, and Calculus!"
Thursday, November 21, 2002
- "What
Is Topology and Why Is It Useful?" Thursday,
March 7,
2002
- " The Possible and the Impossible: Some examples of
the
use
of models
and their consequences" Dec. 6, 2001
- "The
Continuum
Hypothesis: A Look at the 20th Century History of the
Real
Numbers
from Cantor to Cohen/Scott/Solovay" Sept. 14,
2000
- "Life
on
a
Torus: Some of the Mathematics from the World of Pacman"
Sept.
30,
1999
- "The
History of Logarithms: A glimpse of some highlights."
Feb. 4,
1999.
- "Mathematical
Encounters with the Number 7." Sept. 10, 1998.
- "Solving
Calculus Problems without Calculus." April 2,
1998
- "Dynamic
Visualization of Calculus." September 18, 1997
Please send suggestions and comments to Martin
Flashman
E-Mail:
flashman@axe.humboldt.edu
Most recent update:11-26-03
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