Re: math in physics classes

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From: Dave Button
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 00:39

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Cherie,
I trhink that any math teacher worth his/her salt will agree.
Lots of my students want to becom eengineers, but they say that
they aren't good in math.  I remind them that most engineers
that I know "overdesign" and then let the errors take care of
themselves.  As I remember my science/math history DesCartes
was in prison when he came up with analytic geometry.  Maybe,
the math teachers/departments need to read a little history of
something other than mathematics.
:>)  Dave
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Dave Button -- jbutton@tjhsst.vak12ed.edu
Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, Virginia, 22111

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