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khemix
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I'm a little dissapointed with the Real Analysis I recently learned. For one, I don't remember 90% of the results. Also, while it was a great mental exercise, I don't feel it enriched the way I view calculus in any way. It seemed like a technical exercise. Kind of like jazz music - just musicians showing off (atleast I find anyway). I know for a fact none of the originators of the theories or theorems discovered the results the way that is presented and proved. It seems like mathematicians have grabbed a hold of it and destroyed all intuition just so they can dazzle me with their algebraic tricks. Why are geometric results ofted discarded, and instead a 2 page proof is presented involing sophisticated sums and what not when a simple cartesian plot would suffice.
It has not helped me understand physics in any way. I no longer view integrals as sums of differentials, but as the unique number lying between two sums. Useless for application, as well as the way I now view chain rules and derivatives. I would like to give math another chance, but is there a point? My intention was to get insight into calculus and the real numbers. Instead I got a bunch of inequalities that I don't think I will ever comprehand. This is in contrast to the calculus I found in elementary books, whose results I remember clearly to this day. I mean is there anything out there that pure mathematics actually developed? Instead of taking someone elses pure idea and stampting their boot on it.
It has not helped me understand physics in any way. I no longer view integrals as sums of differentials, but as the unique number lying between two sums. Useless for application, as well as the way I now view chain rules and derivatives. I would like to give math another chance, but is there a point? My intention was to get insight into calculus and the real numbers. Instead I got a bunch of inequalities that I don't think I will ever comprehand. This is in contrast to the calculus I found in elementary books, whose results I remember clearly to this day. I mean is there anything out there that pure mathematics actually developed? Instead of taking someone elses pure idea and stampting their boot on it.
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