Anonymous 2021-04-19 (Mon) 02:58:19 No. 5478
Why is math "essential" to learn? Can I get on by with my bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering? I'm not a mathematician by any means, but I don't see what other math I can learn that can really pragmatically benefit me.international_brigade International Brigade
Anonymous 2021-04-19 (Mon) 10:16:25 No. 5480
>>5478 Maths include statistics and understanding of statistics is very useful to avoid falling for propaganda.
Anonymous 2021-04-22 (Thu) 12:24:41 No. 5504
I’m not a mathematical type, I like things involving theory, writing, critical thinking, etc.
Anonymous 2021-04-22 (Thu) 14:28:25 No. 5505
Do any one of you have experience in "competitive" mathematics? Olympiads, putnams, etc? Or are most of you just Marxists who like mathematics?
Anonymous 2021-04-23 (Fri) 10:01:47 No. 5516
>>338 It worries how different countries teach maths and how different their methods are
IN my country we had BODMAS but apparently everybody else learn PEDMAS
Anonymous 2021-05-18 (Tue) 07:27:35 No. 5716
Why is the Fourier-series such a powerfull tool in applied mathematics, engineering, physics etc.?
Anonymous 2021-06-25 (Fri) 11:31:22 No. 6197
>>5466 Can I apply this thinking to other sciences like physics too?
Anonymous 2021-07-11 (Sun) 15:33:34 No. 6396
Anyone still here?
Anonymous 2021-07-12 (Mon) 23:48:19 No. 6409
>>6408 Mix it with programming IMO. Learn Mathematica or something while learning math. Mathematica actually comes bundled with tutorials that basically teach you a lot of typical math to show how to use the language. But I think it kind of gives you tools to start playing around with math for projects you might have, so the practical applications give you problems to solve that help internalize what you’re learning.
Anonymous 2021-07-12 (Mon) 23:49:39 No. 6410
>>6408 If there exist such magical pedagogical solution, you would have heard of it by now. The only way is plowing through. Read and write along the solution manual if you must. You can't learn anything abstract this way but familiarizing differential calculus is just a matter of grit
Anonymous 2021-07-25 (Sun) 18:34:38 No. 6570
>>6408 Tons of practice. There's no way around it.
Anonymous 2021-08-28 (Sat) 13:50:36 No. 6921
How do you learn maths on your own? Just go through the textbook and do all the exercises?
Anonymous 2021-08-30 (Mon) 04:10:09 No. 6934
>>6921 Want to start a study group?
Anonymous 2021-08-30 (Mon) 07:14:33 No. 6935
>>6934 How would that work?
Anonymous 2021-08-30 (Mon) 14:00:44 No. 6937
>>6935 just set up a matrix room
Anonymous 2021-09-04 (Sat) 17:16:07 No. 6980
>>338 Good thread OP.
How do you anons stop making basic blunders in exams? I fuck up the basic math and make stupid mistakes, and then I end up ruining the whole question. My grades are suffering because of it, even though I have a good grasp of the advanced stuff.
Anonymous 2021-09-26 (Sun) 16:39:25 No. 7466
Does anyone here have maths as a "hobby"? If so, what do you do, just solve textbook problems for fun? Or is there something like Github for mathematics where amateurs can contribute to open problems?
Anonymous 2021-10-04 (Mon) 18:53:03 No. 7840
>>7838 math is so overwhelming
Anonymous 2021-10-04 (Mon) 19:00:03 No. 7841
Reminder that Marx developed calculous independently from other mathematicians
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/mathematical-manuscripts/ Anonymous 2021-10-10 (Sun) 10:16:10 No. 8050
>>7841 That's not what the link actually says.
Anonymous 2021-10-10 (Sun) 14:07:06 No. 8052
>>8050 yeah I screwed up. he didnt develop calculous but differential calculous.
I was thinking about Leibniz, mb
Anonymous 2021-10-10 (Sun) 18:26:55 No. 8057
>>6632 Late on this but there are none. Quantum computers are computationally equivalent to Turing machines
Anonymous 2021-10-10 (Sun) 18:31:07 No. 8058
>>6980 >I fuck up the basic math and make stupid mistakes, and then I end up ruining the whole question Iktfb
And to be honest I never really figured out how to deal with it, I just lucked out and managed to not make enough blunders to pass. But something that kind of helped was really slowing down and doing nearly every calculation by hand, writing down all the steps for the question instead of just diving in, etc.
Anonymous 2021-10-15 (Fri) 21:31:11 No. 8120
Do any of you know a good collection of geometry problems? Something that I can think about when I have nothing better to do. I want to train my visual thinking.
Anonymous 2021-10-15 (Fri) 22:52:12 No. 8121
>>8120 NTA but can anyone drop me some Geometric Trig please? I did Calculus in college but I've basically forgotten it at this point.
Anonymous 2021-10-23 (Sat) 22:18:43 No. 8450
>>748 i doubt theres any mathematical value besides proof verification. contrary to popular belief, mathematical thinking is precisly what cannot be formally reduced to modus tollens. the likes of agda or lean may be of interest to logicians or TCSists, but can hardly assist mathematicians with their work
test 2021-10-23 (Sat) 23:23:46 No. 8452
>>8450 also im happy to find a math general on leftypol. though i think marx's math manuscripts showed his poor understanding of the state of mathematics then
Anonymous 2021-10-25 (Mon) 03:58:41 No. 8506
Number theory, counting, comparisons, ratios, addition subtraction multiplication division, exponentiation, negative exponents, rooting, factoring, GCF, LCF, primes, prime factoring, distributive property, adding like terms, fractions, order of operations, variables, isolating variables, polynomial equations, graphs, discrete and continuous values, difference, rise over run, y = mx + b, quadrants, points, lines, polygons, circles, higher dimensional topology, angles, soh cah toa, algebra with sohcahtoa, trig functions-1, perimeter, area, surface area, volume, units, unit conversion, si notation, significant digits, measurements, estimation, rounding, patterns, circumference, diameter, radius, y = x^2, y = a(x - p)2 + q, y = ax^2 + bx + c, x = 0, x int, y int, x = (-b +- sqr(b^2 - 4ac)) / 2a, a^2 + b^2 + c, itg(x -> 1/0)*dif(x), transformation, translation/reflection, rotation, radians, unit circle sin = y val & cos = x val, Pi * rad = 180deg, analysis, sets, coordinates, groups, mapping, matrix operations are about the operations on coordinates from vectors
Anonymous 2021-11-04 (Thu) 13:42:06 No. 8555
>>8550 Well not a torrent or megafile, but you can search all these books on libgen I reckon
>>2922 Anonymous 2021-12-19 (Sun) 15:14:18 No. 8985
>>390 pink = all - 4 green = red + blue
>>404 The rocket pigs version:
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/ >>493 >differs from sets to avoid Russel's paradox? The standard solution is based on von Neumann's work and predates category theory. Cantor's naive sets are renamed to classes. Classes are partitioned into sets and proper classes. Sets are those classes that can be built up using ZFC, which removes unrestricted comprehensions. You can no longer take "all X [with P]", you have to take "all X from S [with P]" where S is already a set. The question becomes whether the class of all sets is a set. The resolution to Russell's paradox is to provide the negative answer by becoming the proof that the class of all sets is a proper class rather than a set.
Anonymous 2021-12-23 (Thu) 17:21:08 No. 9061
>>9033 I would be interested in this too, as I have already forgotten much of what I studied in university. Would Anki help?
Anonymous 2021-12-31 (Fri) 19:38:37 No. 9138
Anyone here reading more "historical" mathematical texts? I've started reading through Bourbaki's theory of sets, just to kill some time until I go to university. Its a little incomprehensible to a brainlet like me, but its very nice to read about mathematical concepts that don't get much or any use these days.
>>7466 Amateur mathematicians aren't taken very seriously by academics, because a lot of quacks come up with "solutions" that are blatantly incorrect. All of the open problems require a lot of study to even understand, or exist in highly specific fields. If you want to study math for the hell of it, just pick up some books on the fields that interest you and read through them.
>>9033 Not sure if any website with exercises beyond high school level math exists. Getting a textbook in the topic you'd like to brush up on, and looking at the exercises in there should work. Skimming through the chapters might also be a good way to see if you've forgotten anything too.
Anonymous 2021-12-31 (Fri) 20:23:50 No. 9141
>>9138 >a lot of quacks come up with "solutions" that are blatantly incorrect. All of the open problems require a lot of study to even understand Counter-example to your second claim: Collatz conjecture (also a great example
for your first claim).
Anonymous 2022-01-01 (Sat) 21:37:52 No. 9154
>>9141 Do you mean to insinuate that the Collatz conjecture is misleading?
Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 14:48:05 No. 9168
>>9155 ?
First claim in the quote you've addressed is 'a lot of quacks come up with solutions that are blatantly incorrect'
Second claim is 'all of the open problems require a lot of study to understand'
Anonymous 2022-01-02 (Sun) 15:22:47 No. 9169
>>9168 I'm not that anon lol. The Collatz conjuncture is easy to understand, which contradicts the claim that
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