Any undergraduate calculus student can show you an infinite sum of positive elements can add to a finite total.
Not exact matches
As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve
undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year
calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage
students.
In the article and the book he describes how many successful scientists are mathematically «semiliterate», and reveals how, as a 32 - year - old Harvard professor, he sat with
undergraduates (some his own
students) to learn
calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would - be scientists who aren't naturals with numbers.