URING OUR EXPERIENCES AS HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS teachers, we have discovered these three things. First, many high school students do not like to take mathematics courses. These students sometimes find that mathematics is boring and believe that it will be of no use to them after they graduate from high school. Stuart (2000) states that many people think of mathematics as something that causes ...

Introduction In recent years, there has been growing concern regarding the success of students in post-secondary mathematics courses [17, 33], and in fact some authors claim that future success in college and completion of a university degree can be affected by students’ success in a first-year mathematics course [26, 32]. Many large universities, including the one in this study, require studen...

Joseph Leonard Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on 27 February 1910. In an interview Joe gave for Statistical Science (see Snell (1997)), he said that in grammar school he built a crystal set and in high school operated a radio transmitter. This led him to think he would major in mathematical physics when he entered Harvard in 1926. However, after taking two physics courses, Doob decided ...

TITLE: A methodological exhibition of the theory of the identification of Lineal Dynamic systems. SUMMARY The important role of Mathematics in the scientific development of humanity is determined by the possibility of elaborating mathematical models of the objects studied in the different spheres of science. In other terms, it means, describing by means of the rigorous language of mathematics t...

The Computational Engineering Program at the University of Erlangen was initiated by the Department of Computer Science as a two year graduate program leading to a Master’s degree in 1997. In 1999, a three year undergraduate program was added. As a peculiarity, the Masters program is taught in English and is thus open to international students who do not speak German. The curriculum consists of...