I asked if she could knit me one that was stripy. The first one she knitted for me (the prototype, as I called it or as she called it, a perfectly good gift) worked well, but it was all the same colour. We then had a long conversation where I was talking Maths and my mum was speaking fluent Knitting, but because she is quite the dedicated knitter, she eventually got it to work. “I had seen a few knitted Klein bottles online, so I asked my mother if she could knit me the 3D immersion of the 4D Klein bottle so I could wear it as a hat. “Ridiculous shapes” for an example on how complex issues are brought into an everyday situation I wonder if “infinity” is extra hard for people who are control freaks and struggle to think outside a very specific box.Ģ. The people I had the hardest time explaining infinity to has been philosophers who considered themselves experts on extreme risks and neoclassical economists who consider themselves experts on math. I’ve been surprised over the years of how many people that does not understand infinity, as they think it is a large - but impossible - number, rather than a description of a certain situation. Infinity has been almost a hobby for me for a long time and I think the way Matt captured what infinity is, and what it is not, is a good example of the straight forward language that this book excels in. The whole chapter on infinity is very good. Just like we said before that the number ‘five’ is the size of any set of five things, infinity is the size of a never-ending set of things.” The number line never stops, so we say it is infinitely long.
Infinity is actually a measure of how many numbers there are. Infinity is not safely contained at the end of the number line.
They can’t be bothered to go on, and there’ll be an infinity sign (∞) there to mark the end of the number line. “People seem to have the idea that if you keep counting up along the number line past bigger and bigger numbers, in the end, the numbers just give up.
I find it hard to pick any particular favorite areas so I will just leave two examples of the kind of style of writing in two of my favorite areas:ġ “Infinity” for an example of the short and brilliant explanations Too many of the books about math tries so hard to make people interested that it feels as if the book is written by a group of PR people without knowledge or interest in math. It is not often you read a book about math that is not oversimplifying interesting areas, while still making you laugh. I started to read this as I wanted some inspiration for how to communicate math to children who are just begin to explore mathematics, long before they move into formal education, to see if I could find a vaccine against boring teachers.
0 kommentar(er)
