/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9836955

Books are the best tool you'll ever have, I download e-books but I hate to read them on the computer and I like to comment and highlight them, so I print the ebooks (if they're worth it).

Then you have videos and audio.

After that it depends on how do you learn and what are you learning.

>>7908221

it should be split in music theory and 'applied music' like art and art history are seperated.

come to think graphicdesign can be considered art theory but I guess noone ever bothered to make this connection

>>7753835
Speaking of government research, I heard the NSA has a shit ton of classified mathematical discoveries that are decades ahead of modern mathematics. How likely is this?

I'm pretty sure it's okay to talk about pseudoscience on /sci/ so here goes.

"It is a Wednesday. A student looks at what calc homework is due that weekend. He sees that 5 sections are due on Saturday. The student panics, thinking about how difficult it will be to do the hundred or so problems that this entails."

The smart kid will break it up, maybe doing 2 sections a day. And only have 20 problems to do on Saturday. That's not too bad.

I know that some kind of cognitive error is occurring, but I'm failing to find which one. What could it be, now?

Anon, Mathematics is an art.

Just like an artist begins with colors and combines technique with his vision to create a masterpiece, so too you must begin with algebra and properties of derivatives and integrals in order to execute a solution. An artist cannot create a masterpiece without his colors and without the years of experience he's had in combining colors in various ways, possibly making some mistakes along the way.

Ensure your prerequisites are well understood. This includes :
Properties of polynomials
Properties of Exponential functions
Properties of logarithms
Cartesian Algebra
Trigonometry: Unit circle, sin,cos,tan,csc,sec,cot.


Only then can you learn and appreciate the properties of integrals and derivatives. Once you do, the rest is imagination. There will be integrals that require creative substitutions, there will be some that are simple and require no thought, but you won't be able to know how to solve it if you don't have the previous mathematical tools avaliable to you. Find out where you are lacking, master it, and as everyone else has said, practice.

Then, as you're solving a problem, realize that you are just executing a solution the same way an artist is executing a painting.

Is the ability to reason, ability to understand and ability to learn the only variables to intelligence?

>inb4 genetics
those shape the three abilities

>inb4 society
only if its a society that forces you into a career path. Literally, not symbolically.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11159739_Repeated_intermittent_treatment_with_amphetamine_induces_neurite_outgrowth_in_rat_pheochromocytoma_cells_(PC12_cells)

ITT: Pending heart conditions

What is the best online tool to learn maths that isn't fucking Khan Academy?

I also have a $100 gift card to half price books and can buy whatever book, basically.

Once you're in Calculus 1 and up, how do you remember shit from like Algebra 2 back in high school for example?

This image helped me a lot while customizing it

Simple fact of the matter is that physicist have the most intellectually intensive course at top universities known to mankind at this point, mathematicians rank slightly below them. Just because you have a lot of measuring protocols and economics classes and other bureaucratic shit like that doesn't mean your course is any more difficult. At good universities you also do stuff like ochem in physics in your mandatory electives. Either that or you specialize in much more harder physics fields. In conclusion engineers have no idea what goes on at the top univerisities physics courses and here goes objective difficulty rating

Physics > Mathematics > Chemistry >> EE > ChemE >> MechE

How do we get the general population interested in mathematics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA

>>7383833

>>7380310

Do you have more stuff like this?

Is it possible to go from a 150 to a 168 on the quant section of the GRE or is the GRE all based on innate aptitude? In other words, can I learn math better one day?

inb4 - OP is an stuuuupid.

Why does college do such a good job of repelling people from Science & Math?
How the fuck do we fix it?
Is it just that our generation is retarded & lazy?

Which engineering job is the best for job prospects?

All right /sci/

What math do I need to know in order to understand Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem?

Currently the highest math I know is basic abstract algebra.

Also, does anyone have more of these?

Interesting problem time /sci/:

It is well known that in two dimensions it takes at least three circles (or 1-spheres) to arrive at a single solution/intersection. Let us call the number of n-spheres to arrive at a single solution #, where n is the dimensionality of the field minus 1.

Thus for R^2, # = 3

Easy mode: For R^3, what is #?
Hard mode: What is the relation f(#(n-1))|R^n? Meaning is there a function that dictates # based only on the dimensionality of the field?
Godlike: Does this function apply to all other rational number fields?

Please show all work.

Good Luck.