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To: Red Badger

I maxed out in college in Physical Chemistry, trying to understand Hamiltonians and eigen values, This stuff is... hard


8 posted on 02/16/2021 7:02:28 AM PST by HangnJudge (Amen (Awomen) brother!)
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To: HangnJudge

Mathematicians tend to name important concepts after themselves, it totally throws people like me who do not see value in memorizing names and associating them with concepts. It would be better if things like “eigenvalues” were named for what they are and not after the German or French dude that discovered them.


13 posted on 02/16/2021 7:19:12 AM PST by blackpacific ( )
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To: HangnJudge

Did you ever see the bumper sticker “Honk if you passed P-Chem” ?


43 posted on 02/16/2021 2:28:55 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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