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To: LindyBill who wrote (34943)	7/24/2002 5:00:29 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There's a really nice chapter in book 1 of the Feynman Lectures that explains logs, exponentials, and (I think) complex numbers without resorting to that kind of hyperbole. Sadly, my brothers ran off with my copies or I'd reach for it and look it up. The complex plane is not exactly an alien concept in math at the college level. The LaRouchian exposition is not the most transparent I've seen. Token (unrelated) Feynman link: wwwcdf.pd.infn.it

To: LindyBill who wrote (34943)	7/24/2002 10:30:39 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

21st Century Science & Technology magazine LOL ! They sound like some amusing crackpots, I hadn't seen that magazine before. You might enjoy this coup de gueule about math education by Vladimir Arnold at a lecture he gave a while back in Paris ceremade.dauphine.fr But more seriously, if you're familiar with magazines such as The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine, you should be aware that most of these stereotypes about mathematics education being a bunch of deliberate obfuscation are false.