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I also learnt complex numbers via an unconventional route.
Post #225,403
by
static
9/18/05 11:29:23 PM
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I also learnt complex numbers via an unconventional route.
This strongly suggests that the "standard" ways of teaching mathematics are highly flawed. I believe you already hold this opinion. :-)
Wade.
d-_-b
How would you like to trigonometry without sin/cos/tan?
- (
Silverlock
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- (24)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 09:58:13 AM EDT
That's just wrong.
-NT
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bionerd
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- (11)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 10:31:45 AM EDT
Agreed if does away with Euclid.
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a6l6e6x
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- (10)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 01:38:03 PM EDT
This is a good thing?
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ben_tilly
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- (9)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 10:57:41 PM EDT
I also learnt complex numbers via an unconventional route.
- (
static
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- Sept. 18, 2005, 11:29:23 PM EDT
Re: think of proofs as straightforward.
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mmoffitt
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- (6)
- Sept. 19, 2005, 01:22:23 PM EDT
I'll have to disagree with you on that
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ben_tilly
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- (5)
- Sept. 19, 2005, 06:35:17 PM EDT
Nit.
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mmoffitt
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- (4)
- Sept. 20, 2005, 11:18:42 AM EDT
Nit denied
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ben_tilly
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- (3)
- Sept. 20, 2005, 07:18:19 PM EDT
What's your point?
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mmoffitt
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- (2)
- Sept. 21, 2005, 12:39:10 PM EDT
My point is that...
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ben_tilly
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- (1)
- Sept. 21, 2005, 02:49:18 PM EDT
Ah. Dartmouth.
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mmoffitt
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- Sept. 21, 2005, 03:26:10 PM EDT
It was for me. I ate 'em up.
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a6l6e6x
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- Sept. 19, 2005, 01:59:58 PM EDT
What the hell is spread in mathematics?
-NT
- (
warmachine
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- (1)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 10:59:49 AM EDT
the value between the over and under, what, you dont bet?
-NT
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boxley
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- Sept. 18, 2005, 11:25:45 AM EDT
Fundamental blindness -
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Ashton
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- Sept. 18, 2005, 07:12:46 PM EDT
IOW: "Let's dumb down Math for the Masses"
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imqwerky
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- Sept. 18, 2005, 09:48:06 PM EDT
Choose which operations are difficult
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ben_tilly
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- (5)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 11:02:59 PM EDT
I'd have thought most folks can grok Pythagoras, at least -
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Ashton
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- (4)
- Sept. 19, 2005, 04:48:59 AM EDT
Conceptually the problem is easy
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ben_tilly
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- (3)
- Sept. 19, 2005, 06:23:22 PM EDT
So this isn't bogus?
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Silverlock
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- (2)
- Sept. 19, 2005, 09:54:34 PM EDT
Somewhat
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ben_tilly
)
- (1)
- Sept. 20, 2005, 12:17:47 AM EDT
Seems to me ...
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drewk
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- Sept. 20, 2005, 09:31:36 AM EDT
Just another coordinate system
- (
tuberculosis
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- Sept. 18, 2005, 11:27:05 PM EDT
Maths is not singular
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ChrisR
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- Sept. 19, 2005, 12:43:51 PM EDT
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