The Oddity @Nyoei@qoto.org
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@Surasanji It is quite profound when you stop to really think about it:)
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@Nyoei I've always had this fan-style love of general relativity. E=MC^2 just kind of captured my imagination as a kid. The idea that five or six symbols could define something fundamental about the universe was big to me. And that this something could be tested and proven correct or incorrect really just jived with how my mind worked then and still works now.
@Surasanji I have one:) #RandomQuestion for any takers What is your favourite area of physics? I have a thing for waves and fields. I think they are all kinds of beautiful. I realise that is a HUGE area of physics but it all started out with magnets and gyroscopes for me and kind of expanded 😂
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@eweish1@knzk.me Congratulations! He's so tiny!
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I am all about Professor Zvezdelina Stankova right now. Her lectures on mathematics are brilliant, easy to understand, and i love that smirk she always gets when she reveals a really intriguing proof. I hope I get to see her in person one day.
@freemo I am so sorry to hear that. Do you have similar problems to me? It makes for a beautiful mind but it also makes getting new info in there quite difficult unless you use a special hammer to force the facts in, different learning combinations, meds and a lot of naptime. Standard book learning is a non starter for me. My eyes glaze over and I am looking out of the window in seconds.
@freemo That is mind boggling. I hate fractions, but that is kind of beautiful. When it comes to working out stuff for engineering things I'd use a computer, but that has a rather lovely degree of precision there. I wish I was stronger with my maths. I have problems with things I can't understand at the root which makes learning incredibly hard for me.
I had a lot of parroting teaching at school with not much explanation as to why things were the way they were. It's not very helpful for people like me so I fell behind on the things I couldn't understand the rules for. I spent a lot of time in the library trying to work out why things were the way they were. Maths at least, once you get the rules in your head, is beautiful:)
I really pity my lecturers...
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@Nyoei Well there is absolutely no advantage to memorizing digits other than practice i memorizing stuff. Just memorize a fractional approximation.
22/7 is off from pi by only ~1/791
If that isnt accurate eough then 355/113 approximates pi within ~1/3000000
Both of these are far more accurate than any digits you could memorize.
@freemo I figured it wouldn't be. I am looking up the individual constants now. At least I memorised Pi to a reasonable level long time ago when I had a teacher who told me it would be fine to know it to 3sf. I disagreed violently with his assessment. I'd still like to understand more about it when I have the time. They should have maths philosophers in the world for people to talk to:D
@freemo I love the Golden Ratio. I have whole books about it. Still haven't mastered it mind you... e i and pi have something to do with Eulers Identity but I haven't learned about that yet 😬
@freemo I suppose it's more of a 'Which ones should I learn to recognise on sight?' because I see a lot of wibbly symbols and I can never tell if they mean something profound or if they are just plugins.
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RT @lcpiosbaseball@twitter.com
Sophomore Stephen Baker would like to recognize Professor Peter Drake (Mathematics). “He’s a fantastic professor because I feel as though I have a good understanding of all the topics he covers. He always keeps things interesting & engaging, and I look forward to every class.”
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@Nyoei I'd start with Zero and One. 😋
Quick question. What mathematical constants would you say are worth memorising?
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