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Hey, you don't need a piece of paper from the man to tell you what you can do :)

by yarper 11y ago

garry 11y ago
Amen! No permission slip needed.
- jmathai 11y ago
  I think you'll find that many of us don't have a college degree. There's no ticket needed to play.
  - chris_wot 11y ago
    That's extremely encouraging :-) My dream is still to do a University degree in Computer Science. I'm currently swotting up on as much mathematics as possible. One of my biggest issues is not with computing so much as math. I just cannot work at the pace that a Uni course requires because I have to understand it. For instance, it took me some time before I realised that the determinant of a matrix was really just the "size" of the matrix. And I couldn't get through trigonometry till I worked out why the trig functions were called what they were called - eventually with a bit of help from Dr Math (that guy is awesome) I realised that you just create triangles in a unit circle and work out the Latin meaning for each of the lines: https://sherlockchrisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trigfunctionlines4.png https://sherlockchrisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trigfu... https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/trigonometric-functions/ https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/trigonome... I'm trying to put down my "discoveries" in a blog, but until now I didn't realise that Wordpress allowed for LaTeX and included the ams package. My blog is here: https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/ https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/ I guess I'm doing this because I was heavily involved in Wikipedia years ago, and I'd still like to contribute to society, even if I'm just rehashing material. I intend to finish documenting what I know about trigonometry, then I'm going on to differential calculus and beyond. After that, I guess linear algebra and then as much discrete mathematics as possible! In particular I'm interested in Cantor's aleph numbers.

Hey, you don't need a piece of paper from the man to tell you what you can do :)

by yarper 11y ago

Hey, you don't need a piece of paper from the man to tell you what you can do :)

garry 11y ago

Amen! No permission slip needed.

jmathai 11y ago
I think you'll find that many of us don't have a college degree. There's no ticket needed to play.
- chris_wot 11y ago
  That's extremely encouraging :-) My dream is still to do a University degree in Computer Science. I'm currently swotting up on as much mathematics as possible. One of my biggest issues is not with computing so much as math. I just cannot work at the pace that a Uni course requires because I have to understand it. For instance, it took me some time before I realised that the determinant of a matrix was really just the "size" of the matrix. And I couldn't get through trigonometry till I worked out why the trig functions were called what they were called - eventually with a bit of help from Dr Math (that guy is awesome) I realised that you just create triangles in a unit circle and work out the Latin meaning for each of the lines: https://sherlockchrisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trigfunctionlines4.png https://sherlockchrisblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/trigfu... https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/trigonometric-functions/ https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/trigonome... I'm trying to put down my "discoveries" in a blog, but until now I didn't realise that Wordpress allowed for LaTeX and included the ams package. My blog is here: https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/ https://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com/ I guess I'm doing this because I was heavily involved in Wikipedia years ago, and I'd still like to contribute to society, even if I'm just rehashing material. I intend to finish documenting what I know about trigonometry, then I'm going on to differential calculus and beyond. After that, I guess linear algebra and then as much discrete mathematics as possible! In particular I'm interested in Cantor's aleph numbers.