| ▲ | ngcc_hk 4 hours ago | |
Basic … that kind of word give me nightmare in my mind when you talked about maths … still remember a book called “elementary set theory” … | ||
| ▲ | raegis 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
The one math majors joke about is Serra’s A Course in Arithmetic, which is definitely not for young children. | ||
| ▲ | esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
My favorite example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Number_Theory | ||
| ▲ | ecshafer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I remember a joke along the lines of "elementary" meaning that someone somewhere has solved it before. | ||