Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by semireg on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:32PM (#43284237)

The information density is incredible. A 2x2 matrix (Jordan constants) containing enough information to produce a slice of a hyperbolic paraboloid. Leaves me mesmerized...

It's funny, at the end of each lecture I just want to yell... "NO! Don't stop! I must see how this ends!"

Very similar to when I stop our children's movie and tell them to go take a bath.

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Re:Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it by mycall on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:01AM (#43289807)

I guess nobody knows all of math and it is constantly a learning process, but things like "Jordan constants" which defines proper nouns to thousands upon thousands of math concepts, symbols, theorems and approaches just makes it a even harder to memorize the whole shebang. Fascinating but sometimes overly complex.

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