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I think this is a bit unfair. This is a fantastic talk but it is showing some selected highlights that the speaker is passionate about. To get to that point he
by throw_pm23 3y ago
I think this is a bit unfair. This is a fantastic talk but it is showing some selected highlights that the speaker is passionate about. To get to that point he must have learned math in some (presumably traditional) way, including parts that must have seemed tedious.
This is like listening to Mozart play some playful piece and saying "if only learning piano would have been this much fun" -- there is no shortcut to putting in the time and work to learning the foundations.
- alias_neo 3y agoI see your point, and perhaps some of the reason is that I enjoy applied mathematics more than some of the more general/theoretical stuff. That said, I don't think what I said (or at least what I meant) was unfair; IF maths could have been presented more like this I might have been more interested (and thus learned better/more). Perhaps I just had more of the "dry" maths teachers, and my high school maths teacher was just a bully, so anything he had to say/teach was pretty much starting on a bad foot.
- throw_pm23 3y agoI have to apologize though, listening to another podcast with Tadashi, it turns out his mathematical education was as far from traditional as possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJCm10ajJw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJCm10ajJw
- alias_neo 3y agoThanks, I'll check it out!