| ▲ | tacitusarc an hour ago | |
I just finished Mathematica by David Bessis and I wish this information was presented in the way he talks about math: using words and imagery to explain what is happening, and only using the equations to prove the words are true. I just haven’t had to use integral calculus in so many years, I don’t recall what the symbols mean and I certainly don’t care about them. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t find the problem domain interesting, if it was expressed as such. Instead, though, I get a strong dose of mathematical formalism disconnected from anything I can meaningfully reason about. Too bad. | ||
| ▲ | chrisweekly an hour ago | parent [-] | |
That's one of the things I like best about https://betterexplained.com -- it focuses on ways to gain intuition about a given math concept, using visuals and metaphors as appropriate. If only math education were always presented like that.... | ||