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From: matloff@bizet.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Matloff)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: The need for an advanced degree
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Date: 12 Jan 89 20:06:17 GMT
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In article <1174@sw1e.UUCP> uucibg@sw1e.UUCP ([5-3929] Brian Gilstrap) writes:
>In article <18960@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> matloff@iris.ucdavis.edu (Norm Matloff) writes:

>>For a systems course, I'd much rather teach Group B, and take them on
>>as research students.  For a theoretical course, I'd choose Group C;
>>Group A seems less interested in theory, and Group B tends to have
>>forgotten its advanced math.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Who? Me?  Naaww!  Now, what's an integral again?... :-)

Actually, it's not really calculus that I was referring to, or for
that matter, any specific course.  Instead, it is mathematics in
general, i.e. the idea of abstract and theoretical descriptions of
problems, proofs, etc

    Norm