The Language of Mathematics

[asher63]

Just the other day, I posted this comment on a thread at andrewducker:

'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.'

Now - via andrewducker again - here's a

Comments

[wanderipity]

I hate math sooo much but if someone has told me this, maybe I wouldnt have hated math very much.

[asher63]

I think a lot of the way they teach math in school makes it harder instead of easier.

[davesmusictank]

I find that maths is a subject that you can approach in many ways and that i only found that out when i did a pure maths OU course many years ago.

[asher63]

Definitely. Different people have different styles of thinking and learning, in mathematics as elsewhere.

[asher63]

That's awesome!