I teach with the Open University, as part of the Faculties of Technology and Arts. I have also been studying with them for several years. So far have completed courses in linguistics, history of mathematics, musicology, philosophy, and Latin. Below is the list of some of my essays on various subjects:
- Differences between Old English and contemporary English
- Variations in speakers' usage of the English language
- English used as a tool for work
- Language play in English
- Acquisition of English by children
- Analysis of academic English
- English and the Web
- Globalisation of marketing and the translation issue
- On the Problem 65 of the Rhind papyrus of Egyptian mathematics
- On Proclus' commentary on Proposition 20 of Book I of Euclid's Elements
- On Leibniz' calculating mechanics and the purpose of mathematical development in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- On Isaac Newton's General Scholium and the purpose of mathematical development in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- On Galois' Group Theory and Cantor's Set Theory
The pages, originally in PageMaker and FrameMaker, have been converted to PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, which can be viewed by using the free Reader. If you don't have it, get it from the Adobe download page.
All copyrights for the essays are mine.
The November 1998 issue of First Monday features one of my papers on language and the Web.
