It was the first sentence in the Foreword by Carver Meadnthat stopped me. “Most of us took mathematics courses fromnmathematicians—Bad Idea!” Something flickered in thenback of my mind…, and then I remembered that manynmoons ago, I was a physics undergraduate. And I took somenmathematics courses from u0001junior facultyu0002 mathematicians innthe U.K. university system. So, that started me thinking about the teaching of mathematics to scientists and engineers….
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