In this episode we discuss the essay A Mathematician&#8217;s Lament by Paul Lockhart, which lays out interesting ideas about mathematics education. We then talk about whether the current public education system is any good, if we can anthropomorphize society. We also learn two new words.
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SHOW NOTES
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<a href="https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf">Lockhart’s Lament (the essay in pdf)</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Lament-School-Fascinating-Imaginative/dp/1934137170">A Mathematician’s Lament (the book version on Amazon)</a>
<a href="http://www.cpmponline.org/programoverview.html">Integrated Mathematics from Western Michigan University</a>
<a href="http://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php?title=Proofs_without_words">Some Proofs WIthout Words</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoteric">Exoteric</a>
<a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Chasing_the_light/">Einstein’s Thought Experiment on Going the Speed of Light</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy">G.H. Hardy</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan">Srinivasa Ramanujan</a>
<a href="http://www.ck12.org/geometry/Two-Column-Proofs/lesson/Two-Column-Proofs-BSC-GEOM/">Two Column/Statement Reason Proofs</a>
<a href="http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/">118 Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem</a>
<a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/idiocies">Idiocies</a>

OHAC 02: A Normal Meeting at Night

Entrenched in a time where true conversation is lacking, a brave group of young men work to change this.