Day 4, Mat194: Mathematical Sciences Seminar

• Today we welcome Statistician Greg Lemmon, NKU Alum, math/stat graduate, and now at Eureka Ranch, in Ohio.

• I really enjoyed reading your dialogues. I wish that you could all read them (although it took a long time, I confess!). There were some fascinating insights into how you all got to where you are today.

  I think that some of you might want to include this dialogue in your final presentation posters, or at least something like it. Perhaps little interludes....

  My favorite dialogue pairs:

  • #4: Keynes and Simplicio
  • #4: Demosthenes and Locke
  • #2: Dory and Marlin
  • #1: Barbie and Skipper!
  A lot of you seem to think that mathematics today is too cut and dried; that students need to see more of the "why", less of the "what".

• Your homework is due today: your "proof" that you can't be beaten in tic-tac-toe if you know what you're doing! This should be a convincing argument, more than a formal proof. I look forward to reading those.

• Next week: my brother Steve will be here, to share his experiences with the Statistics of Marketing Research (and other aspects of life in the corporate world).

By the way, Greg's wife Marla is also an alum, and teaches in our department! So Greg has another really good reason to come back here from time to time....:)