By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. Once we get into complex integration, the theorems become much more technical, so in most cases I will simply state the result, possibly with some indication of why it makes sense that it would be true. For anyone...

By Ekaterina Yurasovskaya With its highly abstract material and proof-writing that students encounter for the first time, Introduction to Proofs often turns into a gatekeeper to a mathematics major. At the Mathematics Department at Seattle University, we achieved significant results by creating a lecture-free, problem-solving ungraded co-requisite course called Mathematical Communication and Reasoning (MCR). The new...