/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8562016
wut was that about my mummy???

>>8376460
Natalia Poklonskaya

>>8017798
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA ME TOO

Same course and fucking everything.

Except I get a fucking 657.77 grant. The max 'special rate'. Have you had the new guy Alberto for anything? I've never complained about a teacher, but this guy doesn't seem to understand questions in English

Also, isn't Maev the best teacher you've ever had?

What year are you in?

>>7978729
>After starting to study math, I've realized 99% of the human population is completely incapable of making any logically coherent argument.

Nice try dipshit, I'm responding to the OPs comment. In everyday life, in debate, etc. mathematics does not assist you to make an argument better than another individual. You don't become better at reasoning about the news by reading Rudin. The 'logically coherent' remark comes from the above. Don't take it out of context and think you unraveled the point.

>You don't believe a proof to be an argument? What is the difference?
Proof = Proves a statement
Argument = Gives reasonable grounds for belief in a statement/opinion

Improving one's sense of reason in the philosophical sense (philosophical ability/critical thinking/as you like it) is difficult because you generally don't know where to start and the end is uncertain. It's best cultivated in engaging in others opinions and listening to them; when you have amassed a large amount of reference opinions and figured out how they develop and are related. Then you can begin to propound your own and dismiss others as faulty or ill-developed.

Mathematical ability is cultivated by building up a large amount of reference techniques and proofs and then applying them according to your best ability.

The key difference is that the first is much more intuitive than certain, and the second is much more certain than intuitive. They are remarkably similar, but I think you can see the difference. They are both restricted to certain fields and prove ineffectual outside of their boundaries. Though of course mathematics branches out to physics and beyond and a study of political thought tends to lend some solid foundations for a study of history, philosophy or literature.

That's convoluted and I'm not proof reading it since I'm working on a damn presentation, but I hope that makes some sense. I will respond to questions.