Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Carry_Okie
That is impressive. One of my worries is that young people, no matter how advanced or brilliant, just have trouble with the concepts of things like limits.

You'll find that the geniuses in places like Budapest spent their youth thinking about number theory and discrete math problems. Calculus is something that takes a bit of a leap.

Nonetheless, you should be very proud, she is quite talented, as the link demonstrates. Have you considered something more traditional, like number theory or something more fun, like graph theory?

63 posted on 01/16/2004 6:21:18 PM PST by AmishDude
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies ]


To: AmishDude
Have you considered something more traditional, like number theory or something more fun, like graph theory?

Actually, I think we're headed toward symbolic logic and Boolean Algebra. I'm trying to impart the lower division of a double major in two technical disciplines before she's 18. Other than using a word processor, she has yet to use a computer, so we have work to do there too. Basic electronics first. From there to gates (Boole there), assembly language, then programming. Frankly I think her talent would be law or accounting, but to be technically illiterate in this century is a grave mistake for any person wishing to consider themselves educated.

64 posted on 01/16/2004 6:27:19 PM PST by Carry_Okie (If ignorance is strength, we're in a world of hurt.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson