/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11366528
Try something like Gromov's Great Circle of Mysteries, random non-fiction books written by mathematicians, and autobiographies of mathematicians who came up with interesting concepts.
>>11366694
The intuition I got in high school was that the part of the vector field tangent to the object's velocity was the "effective" part of the force, i.e. the part of the force that "worked".
So for example, if you have a large, heavy box, and you try to push it frontwards and upwards, the box will more frontwards, so that the upwards component of the force didn't do anything.
It actually makes perfect sense if you hold it up against Torricelli's equation.
>>11366744
>Is that even a degree offered to undergrads?
Not that anon, but it is here.