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Just for perspective, math (and some compsci) students (and practitioners) would consider everything in the linked book to be "trivial math". That's because thi
by irishspring 6y ago
Just for perspective, math (and some compsci) students (and practitioners) would consider everything in the linked book to be "trivial math". That's because this book is a compilation of surface level sampling from various branches of math.
Mathematicians' version of your lamentation would probably look something like "I studied all the ins and outs of measure theory/functional analysis and category theory/algebraic geometry for four years and all I do today is teach engineering students calculus and freshman math majors - elementary real analysis. That's deeply sad". :)
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoA fair lament, surely. Teaching stuff that has no immediate use displaces stuff that may be. It's not that simple because I think learning maths teaches you a broader, more rigorous way of thinking, but still, maybe maths education needs to look at itself hard.