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3 - Steven Strogatz: In and out of love with math

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Putting the Concrete Before the Abstract A

i feel like often if i write something down a once i understand the material well, i have this tendency to start with the generalizations. And so it's not enough to ike, nod your head and acknowledge like, yes, motivating examples are good. There is something going on with math exposition where seminars tend to lose people in math more than they seem to in computer science and physics. So there's something going wrong in typical math exposition, and i'm an optimist that it can be cured.

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