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- Source :
- New Yorker; 7/30/1955, Vol. 31 Issue 24, p20-20, 1/6p
- Publication Year :
- 1955
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Abstract
- The article presents an anecdote about a Mathematics teacher who took his wife to Copenhagen to learn how to count in Danish language. As his tutor, he called a waitress in a café, to whom he proffered a paper on which he had written a numbers one to four. The waitress smiled and continued to count and wrote five to eight. One of his friend ended the game and pointed a bottle of beer and holding up to two fingers.
- Subjects :
- ANECDOTES
MATHEMATICS teachers
COUNTING
DANISH language
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0028792X
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Yorker
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 22658005