>>11177004Good post. 100% agree.
People who emphasize idiosyncratic/nontraditional learning methods for strong established fields like mathematics are often those who end up with next to know knowledge of the field.
>>11177980Have you never experienced natural curiosity? You sound like a bugman.
>>11178005>well that's how it's generally taught in schools. first you learn geometry and algebra, then trigonometry then calculusThat's not the chronological order of things though. Algebra as we know it today came much later than geometry and trigonometry. Calculus came much later than number theory and complex numbers.
>>11178113This too. I'd say what we have today is probably the most efficient method of learning the essentials of mathematics. In the thousands of years we've gained a lot of perspective - you'd be a fool not to take advantage of that.
