MATH IS HARD

[Jasper]

http://www.chycho.com/?q=math_intro

Actually it isn't.  Math videos by some cool blogger guy. 

This thread is now about educational material.

[Cain]

I keep meaning to get into applied mathematics.  Any resources on this topic would be much appreciated.

[Jasper]

Chycho goes all the way to trig.  I'm going to try and find something watchable on calculus.

[Jasper]

Here we go.

http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html#

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Math is fucking awesome.

I always thought I was an artsy-type and that artsy-types are incompatible with math. When I finally took a math class (at the age of 36!) and turned out to not only be good at it, but also to think it was really fun, it surprised the shit out of me. As soon as I have more time/money (when the small terrorist goes to school full days this fall) I am going to take more math.

[Jasper]

Learn as much of it ahead of time as possible and you'll get fantastic grades in with the deal.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But then won't I be bored, going over familiar material?

Nah. I'll save it, I like surprises. And when I do actually go to school, which is rarely, I get As except for that one time I got a B, man that sucked.

[Vene]

But then won't I be bored, going over familiar material?

Nah. I'll save it, I like surprises. And when I do actually go to school, which is rarely, I get As except for that one time I got a B, man that sucked.

Make numbers your bitch.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

But then won't I be bored, going over familiar material?

Nah. I'll save it, I like surprises. And when I do actually go to school, which is rarely, I get As except for that one time I got a B, man that sucked.

Make numbers your bitch.

I'm gonna rape all ten of them, in their asses.

[rong]

when i went to college, i saw a poster that said:

"psychology is applied biology,
 biology is applied chemistry,
 chemistry is applied physics,
 and physics is applied mathematics"

so i majored in math, i got half way through a master's degree before i realized that math is applied logic.  (i'm not sure what comes after logic, but that's for another time).

anyhow - if you're gonna get deep into some math, pick up a book on symbolic logic and learn the rules of inference.  it will most likely be just as much fun as math, and it will make math your bitch.

[Cain]

Ah, logic.  I did that in philosophy, hated it.  Formal argumentation is fun, and picking apart logic is fun, its just the formal logic trees and crap in the middle that I hated.

Also, I used to say that biology is applied psychology line all the time when I was a biology student (my friend's were psych students and easy to wind up).  And then I went to University and did a year of Psychology 

[rong]

i was really close to moving to amsterdam and enrolling in a doctorate program in logic - but then i realized that probably wouldn't be very good for my sanity.  plus, being surrounded by people not speaking english really gets under my skin after a few days.

i always dug logic because it actually works.  you can take some information and apply some logic and viola! new information.  that blows my fucking mind.

[Dido]

i was really close to moving to amsterdam and enrolling in a doctorate program in logic - but then i realized that probably wouldn't be very good for my sanity.  plus, being surrounded by people not speaking english really gets under my skin after a few days.

i always dug logic because it actually works.  you can take some information and apply some logic and viola! new information.  that blows my fucking mind.

I started physics in order to get rid of my remaining sanity. It worked just fine. I cannot describe how happy I was that after evading logic for four years it was the first thing we did in math.

[Triple Zero]

i was really close to moving to amsterdam and enrolling in a doctorate program in logic - but then i realized that probably wouldn't be very good for my sanity.  plus, being surrounded by people not speaking english really gets under my skin after a few days.

nearly all dutch speak english quite well. especially the university students.

otoh, logic might indeed not be very good for one's sanity.

[Reginald Ret]

in fact so many dutchies love speaking english that its next to impossible to learn dutch by experience, they'll automatically start speaking english as soon as they know a foreigner is near. It took an Aussie friend of mine  about 6 years to learn dutch and his pronunciation is still horrible.