The Grateful Dead Scientists
Battle Of The Minds
Calculus 2

The Contestants
Leonhard Paul Euler
a Swiss mathematician and physicist.
Pierre de Fermat
a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
a German philosopher educated in law and philosophy.
Isaac Newton
an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist.
All students in D MAT 123 E1, Fall 2007

Congratulations! You have been teamed with one of these great scientists: in the The Grateful Dead Scientists: Battle Of The Minds: Calculus 2 reality television show. Your team will be required to complete a series of tasks for which at the end, one team will be crowned the winner.
  • How many tasks are there?
  • What are tasks?
  • What is the prize for the winning team?
  • Do I have to adopt the hair style of my scientist teammate?
  • Do I have to live on an island with a bunch of un-showered people and eat bugs for six months?

    Answers to these and other questions will be revealed as the game progresses.

    What would be a game without penalty and after all, no gain without pain. Satisfactory completion of all tasks is mandatory in order to qualify for the prize. Failure to comply with instructions from our esteemed panel of judges (Profs. R. Glass and M. Spiegelman) will result in being voted out of the game thereby forfeiting any grades, prizes, glory, product endorsements or royalties from talk show appearances.

    Tune in soon for the first the first episode of ...

    The Grateful Dead Scientists
    Battle Of The Minds
    Calculus 2


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