Natural Blogarithms

A Well Ordering Principle
In set theory, we describe a set as being totally ordered if there exists a binary relation, , that is antisymmetric, transitive and total.

A binary relation, is antisymmetric if and
A binary relation, is transitive if and
A binary relation, is total if either or [...]

How many times can you watch “Finding Nemo” before you lose your mind? I don’t know for sure but I know that 5 times in as many days must be close. This entry’s title is one of my most quoted lines of the film (as the flounder hunts for those hooligans playing in [...]

I guess there are worse mistakes I could make than on the previous post. This is an answer given to a quiz in a general math course (not one of mine):

Ha!
(HT: jonboy, thanks for the email)

So, the rest of my day is now shot. For the rest of the day, I will do nothing but think about a mistake I made this morning. Here’s the story:
Background: I love it when people come to me with questions, especially if it is from someone besides my students, like a friend [...]

This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to fill in at First Baptist Church, Muleshoe, TX. Both the pastor, Dr. Stacy Conners, and the music minister had left town to go to the state convention in Austin. Dr. Sadler, of the religion department at Wayland, had been contacted by the church and he [...]