Articles tagged with algebra

1. Expressions, Equations, and Formulae

   My dear friend, Solus “Sol” Simkin, casually asked me one summer day if I would write a blog demystifying the meanings and uses of four mathematical terms: expression, equation, formula, and differential equation. I thought that this was spoken in jest, and let his request lie in a dusty corner of my mind, as a memento to his humour.

2. Doron’s Mathematical Amnesia

   Poor Doron has suffered a strange cognitive deficit. His language and speech skills have survived intact, but he has developed ‘selective mathematical amnesia’. He has forgotten much of high school mathematics—which for a person with a Master’s degree in engineering—is a rather tragic state of affairs. In fact, his knowledge of mathematics now resembles Emmental cheese—full of holes.