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Does it matter?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

H. B. Shuard
H. B. Shuard*
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Homerton College, Cambridge CB2 2PH
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When I started teaching real analysis to first-year college of education students, I thought that at least I ought to be consistent in what I said. When I told the students what a word meant, I thought they ought to hear the same story as they heard from my colleagues who were teaching other branches of mathematics. I even thought I ought to tell them something like what they would find in a consensus of the real analysis books they might look at. I knew that I ought not to use different meanings for the same word on different occasions. Alas . . .

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 59 , Issue 407 , March 1975 , pp. 7 - 15
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1975

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