If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013)

Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by algebraicgeo on Monday February 20, 2017 @09:47AM (#13687637)

> It's worth noting I have some of the symptoms of dyscalculia, so perhaps my brain isn't really built to do math and is why I struggle so much?

Does discalculia have to do with numbers and calculations exclusively? It's not very hard to cook up math problems where the numbers are well-hidden so that you don't touch them directly. A lot of induction arguments are like that. Have you ever seen a math proof? The reason I am asking this is because your writing seems lucid enough and math proofs are nothing but tight explanations why a statement is true.

Take a look at this free book by Richard Hammack and see if you like the flavor of it because that's how much of math is: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by ancarda on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:22AM (#13687972)

Thanks for the link, I skimmed through the Direct Proof PDF - it seems very complicated. I have done some Discrete Math which I found fairly understandable once I went over it a few times as I could link it back to computer science. It was kinda like learning a very terse programming language.

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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by khedoros1 on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:20PM (#13689562)

One of the things that I used to do with knew math ideas was to write a program that illustrates them, then tweak values in the program to get a better intuitive feel for how the math works.

I usually come to understand the concept through experimentation that way, and from that point the actual notation doesn't matter as much (although it's still like reading a foreign language, to a certain degree).

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