51 points

Trig is not bad at all. Couple dozen rules to memorize and you’re golden.

Now Calculus… Integrals…

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The worst part of calc was honestly the rude awakening that my algebra skills needed woooork

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Totally agree. The general concept of calculus is pretty straightforward. The implementation of calculus is an exercise of algebra.

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Calculus is intuitive and sexy. Linear algebra, on the other hand…

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I love linear algebra! It’s one of the coolest and most satisfying maths (for me personally)

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Try playing around with GLSL shaders! They’re a fun application of linear algebra and have a satisfyingly quick feedback time.

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I agree! That was the one class I took where it just all made sense for me.

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Quoting a relatively famous mathematician, linear algebra is one of the few branches of math we’ve really truly understood. It’s very, very well behaved

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I’ve not heard that quote, who said it?

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Hard disagree. Linear algebra can make pretty shapes and colors from a bunch of vertices, while calculus can make you want to quit school and become a plumber.

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I have learned linear algebra in a few different contexts now, and each one I learned made it easier. When I first learned it, it was in a pure maths context and I found it tricky. It began to make more sense in university, when I learned it in the context of x-ray crystallography. I think more so than most topics, linear algebra really needs the context of it’s usefulness for it to really make sense, but also, I think I’d have struggled with the x-ray crystallography if I hadn’t already got a grounding in linear algebra from a pure maths angle.

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Yeah I got zero context when I learned linear algebra and it seems everyone here that loves it is pointing to something outside the math itself for why. My brain only knows it as a bunch of nonsense matrix rules you gotta memorize.

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Number Theory can fuck right off.

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Statistics truly is god’s work. The petty, sadistic, contradictory god of the bible, that is.

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Linear algebra? What about liminal algebra

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Linear algebra was so much easier. It’s just vectors

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I cosign this.

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Well, fuck the idea of moral sin as well! I don’t care about it either.

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The best sin is at the beach! Why? Cos tan.

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Dammit, here you go ⬆️

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I have surpassed your simple ancient ideas of moral sin am now unchained

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…and punctuation.

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especially that

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