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- From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Why Algebra...Important
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190027.19013@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:00:27 GMT
- References: <7459@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> <1993Jan25.023340.4349@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan25.023340.4349@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> khchung@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr KH Chung) writes:
- >In article <7459@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>, unicef@epilogue.mcl.ucsb.edu (Joel Rising) writes:
- >> Math is a language, but a far more powerful one. To convince youself,
- >> write out some equation, and then try to describe all the relationships it
- >> embodies. It's not just "x=ky" but also "x is proportional to y" or "as x
- >> goes up one, y goes up by some factor k." Relate the variables to some
- >> real-world quantity, and the equation becomes even more rich with
- >> information. Perhaps a whole paragraph could be gleaned from "x=ky."
- >
- >On the other hand, how do you order a cup of coffee using only mathematical
- >notation?
- >:-)
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- Hmmmmm....well, let C be defined as the set of all people posessing coffee...
- no...wait...let c be defined as the number of coffee mugs in a...no..no...
- hang on....C|{c/d^2r/dt^2} No no no...I can do this! Really I can!
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- "Keep an eye on the species below us...because you never know who may be next."
- ----Bertha's Save The Cat Committee (Garrison Keillor)
- Jason D. "corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu" Corley, Poet, Polymath, Scoundrel.
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