Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Experimental Blog #68

Comments on "The Calculus Diaries - How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win In Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse" by Jennifer Ouellette

Successfully studying mathematics requires a mood to be continuously involved with abstract thinking. The thinking is all about the visual mathematical symbols of some kind or other, and applying the already established definitions and rules to manipulate those symbols for certain purposes.
The appendixes to this book are the most mathematical and explanatory part, but it seems there is something quite wrong with the 4th f[x] graph in the first appendix.

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