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Complain about the archaic teaching methods if you will, but having trawled through substantially similar texts in the past (some writing styles truly haven't c

Complain about the archaic teaching methods if you will, but having trawled through substantially similar texts in the past (some writing styles truly haven't changed in centuries), I'm quite sure that this stuff improves both reading comprehension and spatial imagination. To focus your mind on a small piece of symbolic or verbal-mathematical information for a great length of time is difficult, but very rewarding. It's something that we don't get very often in the modern world. Even in programming (which is probably the fastest method of turning a mathematical entity into something 'real') we often have to switch between countless different tasks in order to solve just one nontrivial problem.

Someone 14y ago
"some writing styles truly haven't changed in centuries" That is because this style dates back to Euclid's "Elements", a textbook used for over four centuries.
- Evbn 14y ago
  Euclid didn't use elaborate penmanship: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/papyrus/papyrus.html
  - abecedarius 14y ago
    (That's from about 4 centuries after Euclid. It would really help to have manuscripts from Euclid's time -- for example, it's suspected others added the definitions later and perhaps injected a neopythagorean POV not in the original.)
- Evbn 14y ago
  Four centuries, plus all the ones after the birth of Jesus Christ, also.