/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>9635440
ok then

>>8930796
>Do you know any math books that fall somewhat within Lockhart's ideals?

Yes, Ian Stewart's Concepts of Modern Mathematics does this exquisitely.

"Modern Mathematics" was the British version of "New Math", the project failed there too (largely because high school teachers don't know real math and fail at teaching it) but this book is more of a historical record of the sort of material that was taught and the way it was intended to be taught.

The book gives a brief introduction to tons of different areas of mathematics including abstract algebra, analysis, topology (and algebraic topology in a separate chapter), etc.. and it does all this by focusing on explaining concepts clearly without doing anything by rote methods.

That said, it is important to distinguish between a number of similar but different beliefs about how mathematics should be taught.

V. I. Arnold for example doesn't believe that mathematics should be anything more than a tool of science. He believes that mathematics should only be taught in the context of real world applications and has written a number of books on this including one derived from a class on Algebra (up through some basic Galois Theory) that he gave to children.

I don't agree with V. I. Arnold's perspective at all but I can't deny that there exist people who find his approach valuable.

There has recently been some increase in interest into this area and while there doesn't seem to be any organized group there does seem to exist a loose network of mathematicians, philosophers, and educators who are attacking the problem on different fronts (aesthetics/functional beauty, processing fluency, etc...). I'm really passionate about this and wish there were a more organized effort going on.

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>>8161010
People who intersperse their posts ellipses, emphasize text with capital letters, and make obvious non-sequuntur in their posts are still in elementary school and belong on containment boards like /pol/ and /r9k/.

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>>>/r9k/

>>8038281
implanted or attached to? Also, why surgically? Wouldn't it make more sense if he just wore a hat made of horse dicks? or do you expect said horsedick to get a big horse boner on his forehead? That sounds like it would need some serious rerouting of blood vessels.

Also, are the horse balls just like sitting on the guy's face? Like he's permanently being teabagged by a horse? Is this what you want?