That’s interesting, Jon, I completely failed to put 2 and 2 together to realize that Starbird is a name I know from UT days, though I had never met him. I guess because I was not a math major during the time I was there, I had only very few contacts in the math department, and never happened to cross paths (or swords) with Starbird.
Hmm. Eric > On Jul 27, 2021, at 5:29 AM, Jon Zingale <jonzing...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In another thread, EricS mentions the book "Topology through inquiry" by > Michael Starbird. I had Dr. Starbird for honors discrete mathematics, which > was one of those Moore-method styled classes and my first decent introduction > to writing proofs. What was funny is that it was my favorite class at UT, he > was a wonderful teacher, I probably got the top score in his class and yet he > and I had tremendous difficulty with each other on a personal level. It's > funny how that kind of thing is. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,-WvTdlW5kc21USG19Vopviuc6N7C3ubeYJ8MKIXhgeSG7GtqkhMh6x3Mlbcb7ggBdCWKahhPsSLhfl8GVkDNL1EyGAJ8ACP-7EQzd2RKlVxlgeum7UTM4us,&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,fOQk5Mb-mSbQ95R8KBXuxTnix1EBdidhAWseM_OTUx4A9UjTG-m9IVlGi2T3XYOa_UVDTDSC_J9AK6TvG-zIeq6V_5fFdo4GtWeKRgWLVg,,&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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