Comments on: Another Math Comic http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/another-math-comic/ 12 tables, 24 chairs, and plenty of chalk Thu, 30 May 2013 02:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zeno http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/another-math-comic/#comment-10080 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:53:56 +0000 http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/?p=2847#comment-10080 My calculus teacher in college told me he had had a math professor at San Jose State who loved alpha. This prof would use alpha routinely for coefficients for polynomials (distinguishing among them with subscripts). He used them for the entries of general matrices or determinants (using double subscripts). I don’t know if he used them for tensor components, in which case the debauch of sub- and superscripts could have been awesome.

I’m itching to us xi now…

]]> By: Ξ http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/another-math-comic/#comment-10062 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:37:25 +0000 http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/?p=2847#comment-10062 Dan, that’d be great — thanks for thinking of us!

]]> By: Dan M http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/another-math-comic/#comment-10061 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:50:57 +0000 http://threesixty360.wordpress.com/?p=2847#comment-10061 Hi – I’d like to include these posts about math comics in the next Math Teachers at Play carnival (next week). Does this sound OK?
Thanks,
– Dan

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