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#1 2010-08-15 01:54:01
- elliot60
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hello math lovers
hi.. i am new in this forum. Glad there is for math lovers like me...
#2 2010-08-15 05:43:25
- bobbym
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Re: hello math lovers
Hi elliot60;
Welcome to the forum!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#3 2010-08-15 11:17:17
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Re: hello math lovers
Hello elliot60,
Welcome to the math forum!
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#4 2010-08-15 22:54:52
- ganesh
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Hi elliot60,
Welcome to the forum!
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#5 2010-09-02 23:37:12
- John E. Franklin
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Re: hello math lovers
Thanks for joining the forum!!
Ask an easy question.
There's too many hard ones for me.
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#6 2010-09-02 23:39:12
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Re: hello math lovers
Are there really any easy ones?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#7 2010-09-03 04:14:12
- John E. Franklin
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Re: hello math lovers
Oh yes!! Anything is easy if you can figure it out
with the knowledge and creativity you have at the time,
and patience, and paper helps. You could draw in
the sand, but the letters have to be very large.
Imagine for a moment that even an earthworm may possess a love of self and a love of others.
#8 2010-09-03 05:09:24
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Hi John;
How about if you figure it out and then someone shows a much simpler way of doing it. Or a way that gets a much simpler answer. Suddenly the simple problem that had a nice easy solution has become very complicated. It was only simple because we viewed it in a simple way.
A problem was just showed to me yesterday, so I solved it thinking this is simplest way to solve this, Then ganesh comes along and does the problem in a slightly more complex way but ends up with a much nicer solution. A much simpler solution. A smaller solution. If we view easy as a math term, we need to define what easy means.
Some of the things you work and solve don't particularly appear easy to me. But by your definition they are easy for you. We would need to define easy in some way that everyone could agree upon. A way that was intuitively obvious and made sense. Like an axiom. I don't think such a thing exists.
For the sake of the posts I know you are speaking of what is easy for you. And I hope you get your wish, because there must be some overlap between what is easy for you and what is easy for me.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
I am willing to wager that over 75% of the new words that appeared were nothing more than spelling errors that caught on.
#9 2010-09-04 02:31:47
- bob bundy
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Re: hello math lovers
hi everyone and elliot60 especially,
If it's easy there's no satisfaction in doing the problem ... and if it's too hard, then it's upsetting to be unable to do it.
So for me the optimum problem is hard (for me) but just at the limit of what I can do. Is this a good philosophy for life?
Bob
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei