“Well I think it’s possible. It takes many people and a long time to refine ideas and make them more useful- high school math is the most polished and condensed. It’s like a Greatest Hits playlist of the best songs from the last century. But, most new math is obscure and specialized. It might be very powerful in some limited applications— but to just understand it is a career.”
That was my answer although I’m still thinking about this. (they are very good at distracting me!) 4/4
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@futurebird High school students like Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are doing the thing now too.
atlantablackstar.com/2023/03/2…
@futurebird Your students seem very lucky. :)
@futurebird new math being done today - "Two Teen Girls Made History For Developing Five New Proofs Of The Pythagorean Theorem"
"some mathematicians claimed that a proof using trigonometry was […]
@futurebird I think there are many branches of established maths which could usefully be taught (introduced) right now. Graph theory, logic, linear algebra, non-linear dynamics, phase spaces, a […]
@futurebird Don't you hate it when they ask ask Really Good Questions? (Where hate = This is what keeps me keeping on)
@futurebird I think this is a really interesting question! I found it hard to think about ended up wondering about two kinda related questions instead: how has mathematics education changed in […]
@futurebird computer science was post graduate maths once. The only reason it didn’t become a separately taught classroom subject in its own right within Turing’s lifetime was because they […]
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@futurebird i think category theory will be taught in 20 years or so and it is only about 70 years old. It is very general and not obscure and specialized at all (ok, in some sense it is, but […]
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