[PenultimateManStanding]

That last class I took in number theory was a mind bender. I'm glad I did it, but man, it hurt. I wish I was as smart as jason.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I did get an 'A' but I suffered a lot to get it. Mathematical geniuses have my envy.

[jasonraymondson]

Your probably far smarter than Jason.

Jason would rather suck a dick than do number theory

[jasonraymondson]

btw, why are we having conversations about Jason, when Jason wasn't around.

Perhaps you wish to start a HOF war

[wisconsin_cur]

So if a guy is looking to add a book or two on practical math for their library, would there be any recommendations?

I'm thinking geomtry, trig... other things real good for building and other practical applications.

[Pretorian]

get a few books by Soviet author Perelman

like this one

Physics Entertainment

he has similar books for chemistry,

[PenultimateManStanding]

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')Jason would rather suck a dick than do number theory

[jasonraymondson]

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')Jason would rather suck a dick than do number theory

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SpringCreekFarm', '
')You mentioned once that you are a teacher. What do you teach?

[jasonraymondson]

I never seen the cube as being a challenge and I don't understand why people think it to be the be all end all. I think people view at as harder than it really is.

But, I am sure you are much smarter than me

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/37407/detail/

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '
')I am sure you are much smarter than me

[PenultimateManStanding]

I mentioned that I did well in that course, but that was where I really learned my intellectual limitations. I labored so hard and lamented my lack of intelligence.

[lateStarter]

I always loved math. Now when I look back at some of my notebooks that I had saved from my college days, I might as well be trying to read Sumerian. The strange thing that I remember is that I actually did much better with Trig and Calc than I did in Algebra and Differential Equations. I was very good at doing Calc, but I have to admit that it was at a mechanical level. I didn't understand what I was doing, but always ace'd every test and exam. My Calc professor tried to convince me to get my major in math, but by then I was too far down the Comp Sci road.

I think it would have helped me to have one of the math software packages that help you visualize the equation and how changes in coefficents alter the results, but those came out much later...

[jasonraymondson]

I don't do math at all The only math I ever do involves ballancing a checkbook and I rarely do that since I pay with cash for just about everything.

When I was highschool I could always get the right answer to a problem, but the teacher would go ballastic because I would never show my work, I would just solve it and move on. So he would take 2 -3 points off per problem and I barely got out of highschool

I just could never figure out all of the steps and rules and I always felt like I was being punished for knowing something.

I just never understood why you needed to take all of those damn steps if you could solve it by looking at it. Now I know there are some types of problems that can't be solved with out using solutions , like in algebraic number theory and trying to solve for fermat many values of 'n' of course then just gets disproven by Carmichael numbers but that is hardly important

[PenultimateManStanding]

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[lateStarter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lateStarter', 'I') didn't understand what I was doing

[EnergyUnlimited]

In synthetic organic chemistry not much maths is needed.
So during my work I was perfectly happy with basic 4 arithmetic operations.
Exponential notation was used from time to time to deal with pH and similar other issues.

During my secondary school and university years a lot of efforts had been made to teach me more of that, but unfortunately it was mostly to no avail.
Bright side is that I can still remember RLC calculations.

BTW I could solve great majority of exercises from calculus, but I could rarely work out physical sense (if any) of such endeavor.
Probability theory was my favorite.