so I have a lot of work to do repairing their relationship with mathematics AND teaching the calculus. The latter of these being the easier task as they are very bright when they bother to do my homework assignments. They also seem to delight in making me angry by claiming “this is too hard for us” — anyway the other day one of them asked an interesting question.
I had been telling them about Maria de Agnesi and how she constructed the curve with her name (also known as “the witch”) 2/
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113633955601256067
“She was able to discover a new curve are people still discover new math today?”
“oh yeah of course, a lot of it has to do with things like cryptography, information theory, but sometimes […]
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