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Wow that's what I was gonna write. I did engineering too, and all of the topics listed in the course. But something about doing it to apply to other things is w
by lordnacho 5y ago
Wow that's what I was gonna write. I did engineering too, and all of the topics listed in the course. But something about doing it to apply to other things is wrong, hard to say what. I remember in high school being quite fascinated by certain beautiful things in maths, and the applied stuff just isn't the same. I guess it just seems like tools. All the theorems are just kinda unsurprising, as far as I recall. Things like Stokes Theorem are kinda foreshadowed as you're doing your reading. Or various statements of continuity (DivGradCurl).
Luckily he left a link for the pure maths course.
- mrjangles 5y agoEverything that was discovered in math and physics was foreshadowed at the time. Your description means you were being taught correctly by excellent knowledgeable people. If when you moved onto deeper subjects this was no longer the case, it means the learning regime you were undergoing wasn't optimal. This is especially true for pure math. Pure math is an experimental science like any other. It may feel more mystical and interesting when you are learning stuff that seems to exist for no reason, but really you are just missing out.