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True tho detecting untrue maths is a key skill. Unlike software there is no compiler tests whatever step to filter out your own minds flagrant errors.
by lanstin 2y ago
True tho detecting untrue maths is a key skill. Unlike software there is no compiler tests whatever step to filter out your own minds flagrant errors.
- skirmish 2y agoIn a graduate course, we used a horrible Russian translation of Jacques Neveu, Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006BNQSQ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006BNQSQ with a huge amount of misprints in formulas. I spent lots of time hunting for those misprints, and I think it really helped me understand and remember the material.
- lanstin 2y agoIn my last homework the professor omitted a required assumption and I nevertheless proved the false assertion. Extremely embarrassing. This happened earlier in the semester and I correctly failed to finish the homework problem. I am getting tired I guess.
- dhosek 2y agoYeah, that was my secret superpower. She was fresh out of engineering school and I’d been a nerd school drop out who hadn’t taken a math class in four years (and never studied the material she was reviewing), but I was able to look at the text with a critical eye at least in part because I was spending a lot of time on math typesetting and had learned that the math rarely never gets properly proofread.