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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
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Here's the OA version of "Chalk." (Final version is in G Scholar if you're curious.) He has other related work too, I think. :) Michael is at the University of Edinburgh. On Twitter as [@]MBarany www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research Michael J. Barany∗ Donald MacKenzie† Preprint, August, 2011 1 Chalk in Hand Chalk in hand, his formulas expressed themselves, it seems, more easily on the board than they were able to with pen in his notebooks, for in his listeners’ presence his fecund genius found again a new zeal, and a ray of joy illuminated the lines of his face when the proof he sought to render understandable struck his audience with obviousness.1 So recounts an admiring biographer the pedagogical exploits of Augustin Louis Cauchy, a towering figure of early nineteenth-century mathematics. Cauchy was trained and then taught at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique, a school for military engineers that not long before Cauchy’s matriculation became one of the first to make systematic use of a new mode of advanced mathematical instruction: lessons at a blackboard. Today, chalk and black
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Oh that is cool!!! Ofc it was new at some point 🤯 Thanks for the pointer!!!

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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
5.2k followers2.3k following18.8k posts
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