Victor J Aguilar

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Is there an algorithmic solution to this geometry problem?

A highway and a country road intersect at an arbitrary angle. We wish to pave an arc connecting them with as large a turning radius as possible and going around the corner of a farmer's field....

06 June 2016 2,227 1 View

Have I successfully avoided superposition in geometry?

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/propI4.html In the standard reference for Euclid’s Elements, David Joyce writes, “It is not clear what is meant by ‘superposing a triangle on...

03 March 2016 8,999 1 View

Can someone request this from Tony Lawson and e-mail it to me?

Contributions to the History of Ontological Thinking in Economics with a specific focus on 'Process and...

02 February 2016 4,208 4 View

Can anybody here suggest some practical problems that will challenge high school math students?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282947903_How_Math_Can_Be_Taught_Better In this paper I write, “Practical problems will hold the attention of students going into the trades. They will...

11 November 2015 6,116 3 View

Why isn’t Euclid’s Elements taught anymore?

I recently posted a paper at Research Gate titled, "How Math Can Be Taught Better." http://www.researchgate.net/publication/282947903_How_Math_Can_Be_Taught_Better My section on geometry...

10 October 2015 5,722 3 View

Why doesn’t pluralism include deductivism?

An editor of the Real World Economics Review writes: "There is no science which uses axioms and logical deductions to derive scientific theory." Here I counter that ballistics is a science and...

08 August 2015 4,336 1 View