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Lykourgos posted:

elemennop posted:

yes, as i've said, even american highschool is inspired by classical prussian gymnasiusms. that's why you study "theoretical" geometry in american highschools.

Right, because you study ontology and logic in American high school geometry class. Because high school geometry is actually all about metaphysics.

What I recall having to study in geometry is how physical objects are measured and represented on paper, how to calculate angles and sizes, how to find missing angles and other measurements by using measurements already known, and then using that to go in a practical direction so that you can solve physical problems. It focused on measuring the physical world in high school. Plato was not given to that, deal with it, going further in that direction and calculating the arc of rockets or how long a ladder has to be to bridge a gap was not the focus of Plato.



i'm sorry to tell you that you were in the class for retards...

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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roseweird posted:

my math beyond basic algebra and geometry is bad and it distresses me a lot, i've tried learning on my own but it's difficult, and i ignored it in college so i could indulge in theology. going back to college again im gonna feel stupid studying calculus with 18 year olds but oh well at least i'll finally be learning



18 year olds are pretty sexy tho

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elemennop posted:

i'm sorry to tell you that you were in the class for retards...



At least we both agree that maths is for retards, then. Arithmetic and Geometry, the fields of measurement. If you want to call yourself a metaphysician instead, go ahead, it would make more sense.

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Math is made up, just like god.

edit: really proud I've never spent less time thinking about something than this post

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all I remember about maths is that we had a teacher called mr trenwith and word on the playground was that he used to be called Mr Fenn but got caught catburgling a student's house at his previous school.....so we used to slyly try and bring up the word Fenn and hoo boy was it Christmas when we learnt of 'Venn diagrams'

on the last day of high school we sprayed him with a hose lmao, also apparently he was addicted to poker machines and kept playing one even when someone got stabbed near him in the pub

anyway mathematics is fucking gay, tell kids 'use a calculator' and abolish it as a compulsory subject in schools, it's a waste of fucking time
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just chiming in to say this physics class i took, the chinese lady would always refer to an older textbook for people who had gotten it used and she always used to call it "jean carly" or "john cullie" or something else completely incomprehensible and i was walking around the library the other day and i saw this book:



hahahahahahhahahahahahaha
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Plato and Aristotle are philosophers, and not famous for their mathematics. They laid a foundation for mathematics.
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

all I remember about maths is that we had a teacher called mr trenwith and word on the playground was that he used to be called Mr Fenn but got caught catburgling a student's house at his previous school.....so we used to slyly try and bring up the word Fenn and hoo boy was it Christmas when we learnt of 'Venn diagrams'

on the last day of high school we sprayed him with a hose lmao, also apparently he was addicted to poker machines and kept playing one even when someone got stabbed near him in the pub



wow Australia seems like a dangerous hotbed of criminal activity, a reall hellhole. glad to see your gun laws are working

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Do high school and math college math classes still require students to buy those overpriced TI-83 calculators? Because if so that's a pretty good racket those Texas Instruments guys got there.
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tpaine posted:

hi i write serious research papers about marxism and such; my avatar is a pic of my 15 year old self shirtless and hairless


yeah. he owns a lot

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math is really bad. so bad that when Karl marx was trying to invent marxism he discovered math didnt advance enough yet to handle dialectics, so he had teach himself math and invent whole new parts of it, and this majorly pissed him off to the subject of math.
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i studied math in college and have this really cool Linear Algebra book by Shilov sitting on my bookshelf full of angry literature and Marxism. do you know that book, elemennop?
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tardy on these heaters
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MadMedico posted:

Do high school and math college math classes still require students to buy those overpriced TI-83 calculators? Because if so that's a pretty good racket those Texas Instruments guys got there.



Yup

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Mike Nelson here.
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i'm going to teach myself math eventually. or maybe audit some classes. i only did like second year mathematical economics and statistics, and first year calculus, but i didn't really "get" why it was important at the time, so i only did well enough to pass exams and didn't try to absorb it.
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animedad posted:

i studied math in college and have this really cool Linear Algebra book by Shilov sitting on my bookshelf full of angry literature and Marxism. do you know that book, elemennop?



nope. there's a huge variety of texts up to like analysis and algebra, after that it starts narrowing down to like a handful of big names, with serge lang probably being the biggest.

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i wanted to teach myself the maths ive forgotten in the last 10 years too so i got "engineering mathematics" by stroud on the recommendation of someone in the D&D uk megathread
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#138
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it's kind of cool that so much completely theoretical abstract seeming stuff can be proved
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What the facts suggest is that Honorius was sick of Britain and that was that. No Briton of rank for the last five years had shown the least loyalty to anyone or anything; two pretenders had been enthroned and murdered; a third had been betrayed by one of his two own magistri militum - the Briton; the Frank had stayed loyal - who had in turn been betrayed by his own army. Faced with this unclean tangle of corrupt ambition and violence, Honorius, whatever his own character, must have felt the same mixture of anger and contempt that led his contemporary Jerome to dismiss Britain as "a province fertile of tyrants". It was Britain, and Britain alone, that Ravenna wanted out of the Empire. In this respect Gildas was perfectly right, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. The Rescript was a rebuff.
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math owns and everyone with a high school education can work through chartrand's book on introductory math proving to get better at thinking about stuff.
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Some Simple Fucking Math::

This Thread - This Page = Comedy Fuckin Gold.
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The holy trinity, or as I like to refer to them: Big Daddy, Junior, and Ol' Spooky