Month: August 2017

Few courses are better

August 9, 2017

At the end of the semester, in order to see their grades, students at the Weizmann Institute must complete an online survey about each course they participated in. The survey asks questions about both the course and the teachers, and the results are then shown in a “previously, on ‘Topics in Holomorphy’ ”-styled section in … More Few courses are better

In X they speak f(X)

August 6, 2017

Observation: in English, there are several countries whose name and language are similar. Unfortunately, there is no clear way to construct the appropriate suffix from the stem. For example: In Hungary they speak Hungarian. In Germany they speak German. In Turkey they speak Turkish. In China they speak Chinese. In Corsica they (spoke) speak Corsican. … More In X they speak f(X)