By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. In the September Launchings, I explained a remarkable result due to Cauchy that if C is a simply closed curve and f is any complex function that is analytic in a simply connected open region that includes C,...

By Lew Ludwig An Administrator’s Quip “If they want to ruin their education, that is up to them. We can’t stop them.” Someone recently shared this remark from an administrator who was responding to a question about whether they were concerned about what AI is doing to student learning. The exact circumstances and preceding exchange that...