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Ironically, geometry literally means "the measuring of land" because it's a field derived from the bronze age super powers, who needed to resurvey the farming p
by monocasa 5y ago
Ironically, geometry literally means "the measuring of land" because it's a field derived from the bronze age super powers, who needed to resurvey the farming plots after each river flood. A farmer might actually have some benefit knowing it really well.
- cyber_kinetist 5y agoAlso, it helps to have some intuition of geometry when you're actually building something (whether that be construction, mechanical engineering, woodcutting, papercrafting, you name it...) Geometry is one of those things that you can teach in the utmost horrible way though (make students memorize theorems verbatim), I understand why students can perceive it as incredibly boring and useless.