How big is a Trillion?

A trillion is a milllion million.  The world economy has lost trillions of dollars recently due to the global financial crisis.  One trillion dollars is enough to buy one million $1 million homes.  So pretty much everyone in LA city could live in a mansion for that amount of money.  Or you fund the CSU system for about the next 200 years.  It's a lot of money.

MAT 521: Next week is spring break.  We will meet next on April 6.  Your project outline and bibliography are due along with 41-45 from Clark's book.

MAT 308: The last set of problems was more challenging.  Don't be discouraged.  Rather think of this as an opportunity to review some math that you may not have used in a geometry context before.  Algebra and Geometry are not separate fields. They are closely linked and as you have seen.  

MAT 271: Proof writing is hard.  Period.  Your role as 271 students is to spend a lot of time thinking about the concepts and breaking things down as best you can.  Doing nothing (i.e. quitting) is not an effective strategy.  Never give up.  Try simple cases. Then try to generalize.  Believe in yourself.

Dr. Y

PS  This whole flap about AIG is way out of proportion.  Our economy is losing trillions.  The bonuses to AIG is less than 0.01% of the problem.   Reminds me of Dr. Evil... Link