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Maybe that's why Bertrand Russell was famous for both.John d Marano said:Philosophy . . .
Maybe that's why Bertrand Russell was famous for both.John d Marano said:Philosophy . . .
I try not to philosophize too much on PF, I won't argue.symbolipoint said:You confused difficulty with complexity. These are very different things.
FactChecker said:Maybe that's why Bertrand Russell was famous for both.
FactChecker said:It occurs to me that math may be the only field where there is abstraction for its own sake. Abstraction certainly has great benefits in math.
In other words, Mathematics is not easy.MathematicalPhysicist said:I try not to philosophize too much on PF, I won't argue.
Maths is easy if you have the patience to do the grind work that goes with it, obviously those that don't like to work, i.e lazy people, they will find maths as a really big pain.
It is.symbolipoint said:In other words, Mathematics is not easy.
symbolipoint said:In other words, Mathematics is not easy.
Okay; you are a genius.MathematicalPhysicist said:It is.
Anything that is worthwhile requires work, I would think that mundane work as wiping the floor are harder than doing maths.
I just love maths. I am also an Engineering graduate. And am sure that for the first 2 years, I scored the highest marks for maths. Try doing the problems again and again. Work out similar problems. Maths is not too hard. :)beamthegreat said:I used to like math when I was in high school. Calculus (integration and derivatives) seem intuitive to me and made me understand math so much better.
Now I'm currently in university majoring in civil engineering taking Calc III and I feel overwhelmed by everything taught in class. No matter how hard I try, I cannot understand things intuitively and everything feels disconnected. I can solve problems given by my professor but I have no clue what I am doing or what the answers even mean.
Why is math so hard?
There is much more to floors than one would think at first glance.MathematicalPhysicist said:I would think that mundane work as wiping the floor are harder than doing maths.
As a joke it's a poor one.Krylov said:There is much more to floors than one would think at first glance.