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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by fnbr on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:41PM (#14719801)
Hmmm. I would disagree with you. It is impossible to visualize the equations as that isn't possible to do in 3 dimensions, but it is possible to develop an intuition. After taking functional analysis, for instance, I began to develop an intuition for how function spaces work, and was able to visualize that to a certain extent (for a given definition of "visualize").
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by adamnemecek on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:45PM (#14719835)
You get it. Few people understand what's happening in every dimension at every point, but getting a feel is doable.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to... by posterboy on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:41PM (#14720366)
The whole argument is that its not doable without the right tools and that visualizations are a very good tool for this.
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