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by tankenmate
3384 days ago
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The issue is that each provable discovery in mathematics is named; it has to have a unique name. These discoveries are exact with at least one proof for their validity and for their limitations and assumptions; all that information is tied up in a name, say for example eigenvalues. These proofs are built on top of previous proofs (which of course are named as well), names and phrases built upon each other. So this ever growing collection of proofs and names is an accretion (or in our moments of grander hubris a pyramid). What you are asking for is the tip of the pyramid (with its wonderful view) without the stones below, in effect what you are asking for is magic, a stone floating in the air with nothing to support it. |
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Isn't that how we all learn math? in fact, isn't that how we all learn anything really?
When you are in 2nd grade, you don't start by learning about Riemann hypothesis. You start at the tip of the pyramid and drill downwards into complexity.
I am not asking for something magical here. I just wish that more math was communicated in a simplified manner that would help bring in people from all walks of life into the world of science.