19: Tune of the Hickory Stick (Beginning to Intermediate Math Education)
Breaking Math Podcast
English - November 07, 2017 03:39 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MB - ★★★★ - 316 ratingsMathematics Science math mathematics computer science a.i. machine learning physics science nerdy linguistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The art of mathematics has proven, over the millennia, to be a practical as well as beautiful pursuit. This has required us to use results from math in our daily lives, and there's one thing that has always been true of humanity: we like to do things as easily as possible. Therefore, some very peculiar and interesting mental connections have been developed for the proliferation of this sort of paramathematical skill. What we're talking about when we say "mental connections" is the cerebral process of doing arithmetic and algebra. So who invented arithmetic? How are algebra and arithmetic related? And how have they changed over the years?
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