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2002 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Fred Brauer: The Man and His Mathematics

verfasst von : Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta

Erschienen in: Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Models, Methods, and Theory

Verlag: Springer New York

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When I first met Fred Brauer, he was warning a class of first-semester calculus students about the dangers of applying techniques without thinking. As an example, he wrote on the chalkboard the expression$$ \frac{{\sin x}}{n} $$. He then proceeded to cancel the n’s from numerator and denominator: $$ \frac{{si\not{n}x}}{{\not{n}}} $$, leaving six.

Metadaten
Titel
Fred Brauer: The Man and His Mathematics
verfasst von
Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta
Copyright-Jahr
2002
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0065-6_2