Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma...
by jiggawatts on Saturday November 30, 2019 @06:41AM
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Wait till you get into Theoretical Physics, where the same thing is being explained by people who don't even have a firm grasp of $MORE_COMPLICATED_CONCEPT, but know just enough to be dangerous with it.
E.g.: I distinctly remember that many of the original articles about the Amplituhedron spent like a page explaining what a triangle was, then jumped straight into functions over higher-dimensional analogues without explaining any of the intermediate steps. Something-something-logarithm-of-a-simplex.
I can grok what a simplex is, but they literally just hand-waved over the bit where they take a logarithm of it in some way.
The page of explanation of what a triangle is was of zero assistance.
E.g.: I distinctly remember that many of the original articles about the Amplituhedron spent like a page explaining what a triangle was, then jumped straight into functions over higher-dimensional analogues without explaining any of the intermediate steps. Something-something-logarithm-of-a-simplex.
I can grok what a simplex is, but they literally just hand-waved over the bit where they take a logarithm of it in some way.
The page of explanation of what a triangle is was of zero assistance.