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Chuck Bower's formula, too

Posted By: 6stones
Date: Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 5:10 p.m.

In Response To: thanks for that link (Chuck Bower)

Just so that I am not misunderstood, I was not insinuating that you had pilfered the idea, or that it should be attributed to A.B. As is well known, many great ideas were invented/discovered independently: calculus, evolutionary theory, non euclidean geometry, periodic table...

Because of wider accessibility to scientific information around the world today, together with recruiting more women and other groups for higher education in some countries, more or more ideas will be invented independently. Perhaps this is no more than a truism...And perhaps more to the point would that progress is increasingly a collaborative effort, in other branches more than in others.

I hope the 'statistical turn' in math education is duly attributed in the future histories, after all we have the evidence on this forum.

By the way, when will we be hearing Chuck Bower sharing his ideas at TEDTALKS, looking forward to that. May I recommend you for the panel (not that I have much influence, though)?

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