Is there a math concept that never made sense to you? Which one or ones do you wish someone would explain in new ways?
If none of these come close you can mention something as a comment.
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21 ▊ fractions 113 ████ the derivative and rates of change 220 ████████ conditional probability, sample spaces and such 21 ▊ AND, OR and other logical operators
@futurebird Stochastic processes are not appreciated enough. Nobody explains why concepts like ensemble and ergodicity matter. You get the feeling that it has something very profound to convey, […]
@futurebird I stared at this for a bit, and found that I was getting all too thoroughly hung up on the difference between the "never made sense to me" that means "I genuinely think I am not […]
@futurebird My struggles with math were mostly a matter of notation. I just wish more of my instructors had taken a moment to explain "this symbol is called __ and it means __"
I like to think […]
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I have to admit I still have issues with Complex numbers! 🤷🏼♂️
@futurebird I'd say that all of them made sense when I learnt them, but from time to time I forget why they made sense and every time I want to understand them again I have to go back again.
@futurebird none of those
but operations on matrices always were too hard for me
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Tensors.
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@futurebird homology theory
@futurebird Bras and kets.
(And more broadly, wacky mathematical physics notations in general.)
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I taught my kids what I call Practical Math: which describes the ways the world works. That's great - I can show them the math underlying a course correction of a planetary […]
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