Mathematics Fries My Brains

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Pure Mathematics
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Sod Mathematics
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:49 am

I need my students to buy into math, and it's harder with this group than you'd think. Who makes some really cool videos that may pique the curiosity of even the least interested? I'm thinking of things like some of the findings from the guys that did Freakonomics, or science related videos that demonstrate the underlying math in an accessible way.
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by pErvinalia » Fri Sep 03, 2021 11:58 am

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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:06 pm

That looks cool, thanks. :cheers:
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"For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation, and every blessing which the Gods can confer." --Plato

Yeah, yeah, don't get excited. That asshole would have encouraged you to continue to follow the law regardless of your leaders too... :fp:
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Sep 04, 2021 2:48 pm

I'm thinking of going a different route. What if I give them a list of mathematicians and have them pick one and give a short presentation at the end of the semester? They can do 3 in a year. :dunno:





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"For that state in which the law is subject and has no authority, I perceive to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state in which the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are the inferiors of the law, has salvation, and every blessing which the Gods can confer." --Plato

Yeah, yeah, don't get excited. That asshole would have encouraged you to continue to follow the law regardless of your leaders too... :fp:
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Sep 04, 2021 5:02 pm

:lol:
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by rainbow » Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:13 pm

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jan 04, 2022 11:03 am

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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:38 pm

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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Svartalf » Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:49 pm

OK, it's been over 40 years that I've not done any trigonometry, and this one loses me so deep I could be in the jungle, possibly even in rainbow's tribal pot.
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by rasetsu » Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:20 pm

I think my biggest handicap in life is that I never learned the trigonometric identities. I was a lazy student, and being in a class for gifted children, allowances were easier to come by. As far along as calculus and differential equations, if I needed a trigonometric identity to bridge some obstacle in my algebraic processing of some problem, I would invent it on the hoof from the trigonometric identity of sin^2 + cos^2 = 1, and the geometric relationships of sin, cos, and tan in the unit circle.
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Svartalf » Mon Nov 28, 2022 2:38 pm

Err... is that Tamil, Telugu or Kannada?
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by JimC » Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:37 pm

If the angle is in radians, then yes, sin (Pi) = 0
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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:47 pm

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Re: Mathematics Fries My Brains

Post by Svartalf » Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:57 pm

it's not sin (pi)
it pi sin, and you can swim in it...
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