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Calculus made easy (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have finally discovered my niche content: math texts that are irreverent and also defiantly uncomplicated.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read "a mathematicians lament", by Paul Lockhart. It was originally a short essay (25 pages you can find free online), but expanded into a book that I haven't read yet.

In a similar vein is Shape, by Jordan Ellenberg.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I read a short paper called "Lockheart's Lament", but I didn't realize he had expanded on it. I might have cried about that one. Thanks for the reccomendations!

[–] stelelor 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for this beautiful example of using "defiantly" correctly!

[–] rpr 6 points 1 year ago

He defiantly used it properly, definitely.

[–] wise_pancake 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Math is never irrelevant

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Irreverent not irrelevant

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What's this about the ears on an elephant?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A little confused, but they've got the spirit.