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Note that “Netflix and chill” is a euphemism for casual sex. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=netflix%20and...
I wonder sometimes if Netflix made this expression a meme for its advertising value or if it just came about as a natural meme
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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#102MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available. It is taught by a lecturer named Herbert Gross. His style of lecturing is clear, he states why things are defined the way they are and derives everything from first principles. There is an unusual mix of rigor and focus on building understanding - where everything comes from. It also taught me that math is about r…
I hope the folks at Gallaudet University don't come across these
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#103Heavens - I'd have never guessed titles like '~ Made Easy' were as old as that. I don't know why exactly, it just sounds modern.
This is the "....for dummies" equivalent of the time.
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And a slightly updated physical version as well http://a.co/gI4K8oe
With an affiliate link nice
That was my guess too, but this one actually isn't. Amazon uses "?ref" for reference (innocuous), and "?tag" for affiliates.
For quick reference, a.co and amzn.com are official shorteners and considered safe. amzn.to links however are third-party and often used to conceal affiliate links.
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#1056-14-43?
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#106This looks like a brilliant resource.
My problem with advanced math is not so much the understanding of principles but the application of these to solve new problems creatively.
I was able to master partial differential equations and pass exams but was never able to apply what was learned to solve new problems which I found very frustrating and was what ultimately led me to not pursue a career in the field.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually circa 1914 British usage rather than an error.
Really? What'd they call a one followed by nine zeros then?
A milliard.
The word is still used by countries that use the 'long scale', which has the nice property that a billion = (1 million)^2 and a quadrillion = (1 million)^4 etc. If you can count in greek this also means that an n-illion times an m-illion equals an (n+m)-illion.
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Terrible advice! I tell all of my students to find as many analogies as they can. You can never lose by increasing the number of ways in which you understand something. Analogies, some may argue, are at the heart of mathematics. > Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things Poincare. > The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality…
Everyone has their own philosophy of mathematics. To me, the core idea is the idea of representations, such that those representations allow you to extract patterns (aka similarity or commonality) from various cases.
Aren't metaphors and analogies representations that allow us to extract patterns?
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#109MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available. It is taught by a lecturer named Herbert Gross. His style of lecturing is clear, he states why things are defined the way they are and derives everything from first principles. There is an unusual mix of rigor and focus on building understanding - where everything comes from. It also taught me that math is about r…
>MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available.
Could you please post the links to this videos.Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#110MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available. It is taught by a lecturer named Herbert Gross. His style of lecturing is clear, he states why things are defined the way they are and derives everything from first principles. There is an unusual mix of rigor and focus on building understanding - where everything comes from. It also taught me that math is about r…
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