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Pizopizopizo

PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:45 pm


I'm guessing there's quite a few young'uns here who havent taken calculus or have taken only part of it or have just forgotten everything.
and I know that a lot of the stuff like polar coordinates were not covered in the algebra/trig math classes although they were suppose to be. (i got so confused in the special relativity introduction)

so that was just why i thought this thread would be nice...

It would be cool if any devout mentor/teacher out there would like to give us kids an introduction to graph theory or number theory or something that is not normally taught in middle/highschool.
and also, doable problems that are interesting spark my interest in a topic more than anything so if there are any "easier" problems that you know of or at least ones that require less background knowledge and less formality...

um... yay. ninja
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:28 am


Graph theory? Do you mean like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory or do you mean how to graph things? Also, are you sure graphing isn't taught in high school? And number theory... well it's nothing you specifically do later on, number theory is scattered through your math classes. This is just what integers are, complex numbers, different kinds of permutations, arithmetic. You deal with number theory most of grade school, but only a little bit is covered within the whole field. A more useful thing to learn would by analysis, calculus or differential equations.

Personally I'd like to do more analysis, since that is of my weaker points, but I don't know if anyone's gonna volunteer to suddenly teach anything unless there is a person (or a group of people) that are already trying to do this in self study, in which case the student(s) would be more dedicated and the volunteer not wasting their time.

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nonameladyofsins

PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:44 am


I looked at your graph and topology question and based on Layra-chan's answer I guess you really did mean graph theory computer science style. I did a bit of that in the course I took on algorithms in c++. In terms of graph colouring and sorting using graph structures. There were also several interesting problems which used graphing algorithms to resolve them: graph traversal, things like, would you be able to go over this pattern in such a way as to only cross each junction once?
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:42 pm


I wouldn't mind doing an introduction to analysis (real "calculus") or group theory. But I really don't think there's a whole lot of call for such introductions at the moment. Maybe if someone comes in with specific things they want to hear about...

Swordmaster Dragon


mynabyrd

PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:12 pm


I've just added two tutorials to the mathematics section for everyone to enjoy. 3nodding

One tutorial can be understood by virtually everyone, as it doesn't even require basic algebra. The second requires some background in calculus, though.
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