Post #1860413
2025-08-19 20:18 UTC
@wolf480pl @jaseg @count @techokami I wish I’d learned a little linear algebra in high school, especially for solving systems of equations, when I eventually learned that in college I was pretty mad about leaving it out in high school. In high school I kept failing to solve systems, ending up showing useless things like x=x, which I now call “circular algebra”
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@wolf480pl@mstdn.io 2025-08-19 20:24
@ShadSterling @jaseg @count @techokami Thing is, not all things in math can be solved by following an algorithm. Some problems require you to: - be familiar with what transformations of a formula are valid - be able to imagine the result of applying these transformations - have an intuition for which formulas are better / simpler / closer to your goal - apply the transformations that in your imagination result in better formulas, in hopes of eventually reaching a solution 1/