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elliot60

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Registered: 2010-08-14

Posts: 1

hello math lovers

hi.. i am new in this forum. Glad there is for math lovers like me...

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: hello math lovers

Hi elliot60;

Welcome to the forum!

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Fruityloop

Member

Registered: 2009-05-18

Posts: 143

Re: hello math lovers

Hello elliot60,
           Welcome to the math forum!

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,420

Re: hello math lovers

Hi elliot60,

Welcome to the forum!

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

John E. Franklin

Member

Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 3,588

Re: hello math lovers

Thanks for joining the forum!!
Ask an easy question.
There's too many hard ones for me.

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igloo myrtilles fourmis

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: hello math lovers

Are there really any easy ones?

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

John E. Franklin

Member

Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 3,588

Re: hello math lovers

Oh yes!!  Anything is easy if you can figure it out
with the knowledge and creativity you have at the time,
and patience, and paper helps.  You could draw in
the sand, but the letters have to be very large.

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igloo myrtilles fourmis

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: hello math lovers

Hi John;

How about if you figure it out and then someone shows a much simpler way of doing it. Or a way that gets a much simpler answer. Suddenly the simple problem that had a nice easy solution has become very complicated. It was only simple because we viewed it in a simple way.

A problem was just showed to me yesterday, so I solved it thinking this is simplest way to solve this, Then ganesh comes along and does the problem in a slightly more complex way but ends up with a much nicer solution. A much simpler solution. A smaller solution. If we view easy as a math term, we need to define what easy means.

Some of the things you work and solve don't particularly appear easy to me. But by your definition they are easy for you. We would need to define easy in some way that everyone could agree upon. A way that was intuitively obvious and made sense. Like an axiom. I don't think such a thing exists.

For the sake of the posts I know you are speaking of what is easy for you. And I hope you get your wish, because there must be some overlap between what is easy for you and what is easy for me.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,621

Re: hello math lovers

hi everyone and elliot60 especially,

If it's easy there's no satisfaction in doing the problem ... and if it's too hard, then it's upsetting to be unable to do it.

So for me the optimum problem is hard (for me) but just at the limit of what I can do.  Is this a good philosophy for life?

Bob

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Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob