Comments on: Developing Your Intuition For Math http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/ Learning shouldn't hurt. Let's share the insights that made difficult ideas click. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274460 Frank Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:06:20 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274460 Thank you for succintly listing out a method to go about intuitively thinking about and understanding math I'm taking a math senior seminar and I have to present on the Euler-Lagrange equation and give a short intro. into the history, derivation, and basics of calculus of variations...I am pretty lost still but your site (though it doesn't deal with the topic) has helped me immensely in better understanding fundamental math ideas and helped me find a way to focus the paper I have to write too. I especially like how you mention looking into the history of an idea to find its central theme, and your example with e. Seriously, this takes away at least a little of the anxiety I'm feeling about the paper and the presentation. Thank you for succintly listing out a method to go about intuitively thinking about and understanding math

I’m taking a math senior seminar and I have to present on the Euler-Lagrange equation and give a short intro. into the history, derivation, and basics of calculus of variations…I am pretty lost still but your site (though it doesn’t deal with the topic) has helped me immensely in better understanding fundamental math ideas and helped me find a way to focus the paper I have to write too.

I especially like how you mention looking into the history of an idea to find its central theme, and your example with e. Seriously, this takes away at least a little of the anxiety I’m feeling about the paper and the presentation.

]]> By: Kalid http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274289 Kalid Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:10:02 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274289 @Vera: Wow, thank you for the kind words! I'm really happy the site comes across like that, I want it to be a conversation and not a lecture ;). @Vera: Wow, thank you for the kind words! I’m really happy the site comes across like that, I want it to be a conversation and not a lecture ;) .

]]> By: Vera http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274131 Vera Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:21:44 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/developing-your-intuition-for-math/#comment-274131 I am a Math teacher and I like this site dearly. Reading it is like talking to a friend whom you you've known for long time. Thanks! I am a Math teacher and I like this site dearly. Reading it is like talking to a friend whom you you’ve known for long time. Thanks!

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