with  Gina, Tom and Dennis

AFTER CLASS

• Dennis's amazing assignments:

  • Rain Forests and Palm Oil​

  • Solving Linear Equations

• Tom's two Donalds:

  • Donald Barthelme

  • David Bartholomae

• Tom was happy that Tom & Kelly did not become a:

  • Shemp and Curly situation

• Dennis’s student, who started in elementary algebra, came to him asking about Leonhard Euler, whose work he was reading in the original German version.​

• Fact Check: Sir Isaac Newton was a virgin when he died.

  • Probably TRUE

• Tom said "Wax on, wax off", referring to:

  • The Karate Kid

• Dennis's math references:

  • Fibonacci sequence

  • George Polya's heuristic

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