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I’ve seen this sort of reactionary response in mathematics and music as well. When talking to a musical educator complaining about struggling students just sta
by mungal 4y ago
I’ve seen this sort of reactionary response in mathematics and music as well.
When talking to a musical educator complaining about struggling students just starting out I’ll say “I found it extremely helpful to paint the C major scale on my guitar when learning music theory.”
And they respond “Well what about chromatic 12 pitch atonal music?! What would Anton Webern say?!”
- TheOtherHobbes 4y agoIn GR terms, Levi-Civita is more like "This is a major scale and you need to know it" than serialism. Some subjects are just plain hard and only accessible to smart persistent people. GR and QFT definitely qualify - but they seem to be warm up exercises compared to whatever Quantum Gravity will eventually become.
- wumpus 4y agoAs someone who has studied GR (at the grad school level) and music, no, that's a terrible analogy.
- sidlls 4y agoEh, no. The problem with your analogy is that the “not linear algebra” bits aren’t esoteric, rarely practiced or used edge cases: they’re the core of the mathematical model.