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Unfortunately, most of the mathematical text miss the historical context which they are developed in. I personally enjoy a text in any subject, where the author
by __Joker 12y ago
Unfortunately, most of the mathematical text miss the historical context which they are developed in. I personally enjoy a text in any subject, where the author develops the content with historical perspective.
Any learning course should include one textbook which develops the content from an historical perspective.
- kalid 12y agoI agree. A few years after doing articles, I started seeing the power of historical context. For example, the Fourier Transform was originally _rejected_ as implausible when presented to the mathematicians of the time. They needed a decade of debate to verify its truth, and yet we teach it to students in a week and expect them to internalize it without issue. We need to acknowledge the difficulty/counter-intuitive nature of the idea up front.