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Hi guys, I've read the 'who wants to be a mathematician' thread, which mentions Zapher's guide to 'who wants to be a physicist' but can't find it anywhere. My end goal is to become a hobbist in theoretical physicist, but it's been so long since I've done any math and since I'm a bit of a...

Hi Guys, Does anyong have any comments on 'Modern Algebra' by Seth Warner? I want to get back into math and figured that this would be a good start. Alfie

It makes everything more elegant. Kind of like why I use the decimal system. Roman numerals are just to clumsy ;)

Pi is wrong Has anyone seen the following? http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.html What I thought was clever about it was some of the examples: - sin( x + thri ) = sin(x) - e^(i.thri) = 1 - h bar = h/thri where thri = pi with *three* legs, hence three