[Edu-sig] Mercurial math, with Python

[Kirby Urner]

> Unfortunately I also loved the consistency of mercury.  And would
> constantly be breaking thermometers to get at it.  We now know I 
> probably shouldn't have been.  But maybe it explains something.
> 
> Art

Yeah, mercury is sooo cool.  A damn shame it's also toxic as all get out.

Re Python in the math curriculum (I'm all for it in CS too, but push it in
math, against the choke hold of calculators):  new sample segment at
http://www.mathforum.com/epigone/math-teach/praldprexcrai

Kirby