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Interesting Links for 13-09-2016

Sep 13, 2016 12:00

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asher63 September 15 2016, 03:50:21 UTC

That's kind of what I thought. I imagine the many branches of mathematics would attract different styles of thinking. Different people will feel 'at home' with different kinds or problems.

Mathematics isn't my strongest subject; language is. But I do remember sitting in 2nd semester Calculus, looking for 'u' and 'du' in an integrand, and thinking that it felt very much like a grammatical problem: looking for patterns in a collection of symbols.

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