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Burn math class
And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself
Book • 2016
In 'Burn Math Class', Jason Wilkes challenges the traditional approach to mathematics education by focusing on how mathematics is created rather than on mathematical facts.
The book requires no memorization and no prior knowledge beyond addition and multiplication, guiding readers from basic arithmetic to advanced topics like time-dilation in special relativity and calculus.
Wilkes argues that orthodox mathematics education has been teaching the subject backward and shows how mathematics can be reinvented from scratch through experimentation and failure, making it fun and organically understandable.
The book requires no memorization and no prior knowledge beyond addition and multiplication, guiding readers from basic arithmetic to advanced topics like time-dilation in special relativity and calculus.
Wilkes argues that orthodox mathematics education has been teaching the subject backward and shows how mathematics can be reinvented from scratch through experimentation and failure, making it fun and organically understandable.
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Cal Newport as a book where the author derives all of mathematics up to multidimensional calculus from first principles.
Cal Newport as a book where the author derives all of mathematics up to multidimensional calculus from first principles.
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