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> Note that “high-level math” by your definition covers things that were basically understood by 1900 (a good part even by 1850) and polished by 1940. It’s an i
by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
> Note that “high-level math” by your definition covers things that were basically understood by 1900 (a good part even by 1850) and polished by 1940. It’s an incredible failure of the education system that any of this still counts as “advanced” in any way in 2023[1].
Derivatives and matrices are high-school math.
- mananaysiempre 4y agoDepends on the country, and furthermore where I’ve seen them included they’re isolated either to a specialized track or to the last months of school, which still counts as “advanced” as far as I’m concerned and, I expect, as far as the students think about it. (I also think learning linear algebra from the matrices side rather than from the linear transformations side, as was indeed common for mathematicians in the 19th century and for physicists and engineers well into the 20th, is both unnecessarily painful and almost impossible to pull off well. So if a syllabus lists its basics-of-linear-algebra part as “matrices” it’s probably missing the point. Knowing that you do rows times columns is of very little value, the part that makes it worth it is the why.)