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To: brianr10
At higher levels, math becomes increasingly abstract, and only a very few can understand it. There is no equality.

Huh? At what level does it become too abstract to understand? Calculus? Differential equations? Calculus of variation? Vector and matrix operations?

The whole beauty of math is it is color blind, objective not subjective.

24 posted on 05/04/2021 12:53:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Magnum44

Math classes will become increasingly difficult and weed out those who cannot understand the material, it varies from person to person.


33 posted on 05/04/2021 1:00:15 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: Magnum44

“At what level does it become too abstract to understand?”

Well, wrapping your head around quaternions is a bit of a doozy. I know they work, but I don’t think I could quite explain to you why they work...


36 posted on 05/04/2021 1:01:35 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Magnum44
At what level does it become too abstract to understand?

Well, personally, for me the level was Algebra. Fortunately, our two daughters took after their father in math aptitude.

49 posted on 05/04/2021 1:07:05 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Magnum44

I got hung up on “Prove that a unique minimax estimator is admissible.” It had something to do with lim inf over a sup over theta. Yeah, that was statistics, but there were similar proofs on the math side.


81 posted on 05/04/2021 1:53:10 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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Lest we forget ... Quaternions!


132 posted on 05/05/2021 2:45:06 AM PDT by jamaksin ( )
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