Quizzed

Yesterday, I stopped by the office of the paper for which I write. In the course of discussion, the fact that I'm in school chasing a math degree. The publisher, who's a trained engineer, decided to give me the quickie quiz of my mathematical knowledge. He asked, "What's the integral of 1/x?" I pondered for about a second, just to be sure I didn't blurt something stupid, then replied, "Natural log, isn't it?" I was then told that many eople who claim to know math do not know this (or at least can't answer it on the spur of the moment). It's a foundation in Calculus II, so there is really no excuse (except forgetfulness) for math people not knowing this. It's really a good simple test - if you can't answer, you really have no business claiming to be a math head (mathlete?).