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No, in highschool. This was in the late 1960s. His highschool was in NYC and was very progressive. Goldstein was the best book to...

Some things to consider: Are you actually taking a 4 year degree? Beware that some schools offer 3 year undergraduate degrees that...

The original poster (OP) hasn't been back to PF since summer of 2025. In addition, we didn’t have the article to even discuss the OP’s...

<<Emphasis added>> * The passages I've highlighted are the most telling as to why you shouldn't rush through your undergrad in 3 yrs...

You know, I think you know the answer we’d give. Enjoy your four years, experience other courses, talk with your professors about...

There's a curious parallel here. When great authors invent their characters and where they reside, they often find that the story...

@Hill I think that’s very insightful. It’s like we create/invent a game with rules on how to play it and then we discover strategies on...

Wouldn't it be correct to say that theorems are discovered, concepts and proofs are invented?

Why not pick simpler examples like ##\pi## or e? These constants have interesting properties and appear in unexpected places.

The magic of math is that we can use it to make predictions in many fields. When you say math hides what's going on in physics, it's...

Welcome to PF! Please take some time to read our site global guidelines (see link in my post signature below). In your simulations...

I guess it's a matter of perspective. Historically, we discovered real numbers first and derived the others by deleting an axiom. But...

You are summing to n not to infinity. Convergence doesn't come into play. A finite expansion will have a finite number of terms and in...

My understanding is that adding or strengthening an axiom produces these objects. They are in a sense odd edge cases that pop up when...

Doesn't this come from the series being finite binary expansion? Being finite it will sum to a finite number.