Re:Math Intuition Cheatsheet
by kalid on Friday July 25, 2014 @12:43PM
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I agree. A few years after doing articles, I started seeing the power of historical context.
For example, the Fourier Transform was originally _rejected_ as implausible when presented to the mathematicians of the time. They needed a decade of debate to verify its truth, and yet we teach it to students in a week and expect them to internalize it without issue. We need to acknowledge the difficulty/counter-intuitive nature of the idea up front.
For example, the Fourier Transform was originally _rejected_ as implausible when presented to the mathematicians of the time. They needed a decade of debate to verify its truth, and yet we teach it to students in a week and expect them to internalize it without issue. We need to acknowledge the difficulty/counter-intuitive nature of the idea up front.