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How do I git God at math?

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 00:35:28 2020 No.11440563 View Reply Original Report

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I have a very high Verbal IQ of 134-140 but all my visual spacial/Mathematical IQ is a paltry 112.

Is there some way I could rephrase the math that I'm learning to rely primarily on my Verbal IQ? I really like math and I dont want to go the rest of my life as a mathlet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 00:39:55 No.11440569 Report

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>>11440563
Get Analysis I by Terence Tao and start at Chapter 2. When you're done do Analysis II using Youtube to look up all the Topology shit.

When you're done get his book on harmonic analysis and do it too, and his linear algebra notes. You only learn by going through absolutely everything from scratch and putting it all together

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 00:40:11 No.11440570 Report

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>>11440563
>Verbal IQ
you mean the quotient that measures whether or not you read books

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 00:51:58 No.11440606 Report

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Visual spatial 146, math 142, logic 135 ADHD and I'm still not super good at math. Just gotta work hard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 01:07:30 No.11440641 Report

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>>11440563
Do you find word problems easier and more intuitive than numbered math?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 01:44:48 No.11440746 Report

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>>11440641
Not really maybe because I keep trying to visualize the problem.

I need to change how I approach math.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 01:47:02 No.11440751 Report

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>>11440563
>another humble brag IQ thread
anyone who posts their ""real IQ"" should be perma banned

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Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 04:25:44 No.11441223 Report

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>>11440751
No man I'm serious I have real problems getting the intuition for higher level math.

I need a way to approach math with my verbal reasoning ability or I'm doomed to being a mathlet forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 04:41:25 No.11441238 Report

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>>11441223
If you really have 112 mathematical IQ that is well above average and more than enough to pass classes. Stop being a retard and acting like that means you are some ultra brainlet.
Maybe whatch some videos to try to get a more intuitive feel for math.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 04:45:34 No.11441243 Report

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>>11441223
What classes are you struggling with?
What is your major?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 05:46:36 No.11441349 Report

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>>11440563
I have the same issue so let usbkniw when you figure it out. I was trash at math since elementary school to the point where if I see basic math now I don't even care anymore and quit. Me not enjoying math is the sole reason I can't study astronomy like I wanted to when I was a lad.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 07:20:25 No.11441463 Report

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>>11440563
worrying about iq is for suckers, start reading and stop complaining

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 19:08:26 No.11442695 Report

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>>11441243
I'm trying to get an intuition for linear Algebra by watching 3blue1brown's essence of linear algebra series but i'm stuck on the dot product video.

I really need to find a way to study and do math with my verbal reasoning ability or else i'm doomed to being a math mitwit forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 21:37:05 No.11443107 Report

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Bump please help I don't want to be a math midwit for the rest of my life.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 21:44:50 No.11443123 Report

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>>11440570
This.
On the aggregate it can be a pretty g loaded measure but for individuals it can be extremely skewed if you spend all your time reading fairytales
Hence, OP is a midwit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 21:49:00 No.11443133 Report

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>>11442695
You're stuck on a dot product video? rip
As for intuition and math, a lot of math is occult patterns some autistic retard found 200-3000 years ago. Is a^2 + b^2 = c^2 intuitive? No, you really can't tell just by looking at it. You just have to memorize the patterns at the end of the day to get anywhere.
a*b = |a||b|cos(t) , so the dot product is just an esoteric pattern that contains the info of the lengths and angles of the vectors
Will you ever be able to tell that by looking at it? No, because it's a hidden pattern

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Anonymous Thu 05 Mar 2020 22:03:25 No.11443171 Report

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>>11443123
I've had a professionally administered IQ test and my verbal reasoning is in the top 1-2% of the population, i'm hardly a midwit. However I am a complete math/visual spacial midwit so i'm trying to compensate.
>>11443133
>You just have to memorize the patterns at the end of the day to get anywhere.
I refuse to do that, it makes me feel like a soulless Asian bugman. And i'm only stuck insofar and i'm trying to get a real intuitive feel for the dot product. I'm fine when it comes to understand how to compute it or what it ties together. The problem is that 3blue1brown gives geometic explanations and that's visual spacial. Which is where I am a fucking midwit.

I'm not satisfied that I understand a topic until I can "feel" it deep down. A good example of this is back when I was taking Calc 2 I could follow the proof for the fundamental theorem of calculus but until I worked out on my own that when you integrate (dy/dx)*dx you get dy and adding up the infetesimal dy an infinite many times equals y(x) did I really feel satisfied that I understood it. So what I need to do is translate the math that i'm learning into something that I can analyze with language. I mean math is ultimately a language so I should be able to do it. I just have no idea where to start.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Mar 2020 02:21:31 No.11443790 Report

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>>11443171
>I've had a professionally administered IQ test and my verbal reasoning is in the top 1-2% of the population, i'm hardly a midwit. However I am a complete math/visual spacial midwit so i'm trying to compensate.
How much do you read? People tend to score similarly on IQ subtests since g exists
>I refuse to do that, it makes me feel like a soulless Asian bugman
It shouldn't because as I explained, they're hidden patterns. They're not intuitive in any way. The FTC included. It turns out that there is a hidden pattern that the antiderivative of a function can give you the area under its curve. There is no intuitive explanation. "dy" doesn't exist and "integrate (dy/dx)*dx you get dy and adding up the infetesimal dy an infinite many times equals y(x)" is just autistic, meaningless babble (no offense). My point is that the only real, not BS part of the FTC is the simple fact that there is a hidden pattern that Sf(x)dx = F(b)-F(a) = the area under f(x) from a to b. You're best off just saving time and recognizing, "wow, some autistic virgin found that out 400 years ago. Cool. Now I know how to compute the area under a curve. Ok, I'm gonna go spend my time doing something valuable now". As opposed to getting stuck in the land of symbols and analyzing what dx and dy really mean (hint: they mean whatever you want. They have no inherent, or transcendent meaning and you can't do real, non illusory computations with them because they're not real quantities. It's meaningless to say summation to infinity dy = f(x) because dy is not a quanitity)

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Anonymous Fri 06 Mar 2020 03:35:28 No.11443968 Report

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>>11440563
math is all verbal after a certain point. Just memorizing and applying definitions... so you should be good at math if you have high verbal IQ. Leave all that visual stuff to engineers

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