He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang)

Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by levzettelin on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:13PM (#36170137)

If math it fun, you're doing it wrong.

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by kiechu on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:16PM (#36170170)

The same with spelling.

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by levzettelin on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:45AM (#36175160)

Ouch!

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by Errancer on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:15PM (#36170160)

what? i feel like it is completely opposite; per the "A Mathematician’s Lament" essay

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by l33t233372 on Friday June 02, 2023 @05:14PM (#36170822)

As someone with graduate level math experience and many friends in mathematics grad school, I know what you mean, but it definitely depends on your idea of fun.

You have to enjoy bashing your head against a problem for a dozen hours. Or to be more precise, you have to enjoy the feeling of solving such a hard problem sufficiently much to find math fun.

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by levzettelin on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:45AM (#36175159)

Heh, fair point regarding the "idea of fun". Disagree, though, that you have to enjoy the feeling of banging your head against hard problems (no one does). You just have believe that getting through it will make you better off eventually.

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by ta_rhdetvd on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:27PM (#36172128)

You sound like someone who wasn't enjoying mathematics that much in class. I hope you'll manage to get over it someday.

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Re:He made linear algebra fun (Gilbert Strang) by levzettelin on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:40AM (#36175142)

I actually have a PhD in linear algebra lol.

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