Today in Faith and Science we went over a couple of interesting articles concerning how we might integrate Faith into our Science curriculum at Christian universities. One author proposes that scientific research can be directed by the understanding that God is the cause of natural law. The second author responds to the first author, maintaining that the creation must surely have some level of autonomy so that not all things are directly caused by God. They are worth your time if you are interested: [...]
Posted in Calculus IV, Classes on February 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
We picked up where we left off prior to the Exam on Tuesday. We are discussing function of several variables. I began by recapping the techniques we use for visualizing the graphs of functions of two variables, namely, surfaces and contour maps, or level curves. We used this as a springboard to move up to functions of 3 variables. [...]
On Thursday, we began the chapter on Real Numbers. We are taking the axiomatic approach to defining the set of real numbers. I demonstrated the difficulty of defining Real Numbers in the techniques that have been typically used in their earlier class, such as by decimal expansion or as points on the real number line. I alluded to the method of actually constructing Real Numbers through the method of Dedekind cuts but I have chosen to follow the text by describing the properties that uniquely define the set. [..]
Posted in Friday Random 10 on February 2nd, 2007 4 Comments »
I thought it might be fun to adopt a blog series that I first learned from CastingOutNines. I’m a recently adopted member of the “iPod” generation and have become quite addicted to podcasts. In addition to having 5.80 GB of podcasts stored on my iPod, I have 1,514 songs which would take me 4 straight days, non-stop, to listen to all of them. [..]