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- From: dms@krang.vis.citri.edu.au (David Mcgregor SQUIRE)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.bio,sci.chem,soc.men,soc.women
- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
- Message-ID: <9229012.7427@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 02:35:33 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- Well, I'm not sure how to answer this. I guess I find the maths in maths
- course is hard when it seems completely abstract. The funny thing is that
- most people swear that the maths I had to do in my advanced physics courses
- was harder than the stuff I actually did in maths. I never found it so. I
- have always been able to do the maths in physics courses with relative
- ease. I seems to help me a lot if there is some physical system sitting in
- there somewhere. Now in QM or statistical mechanics, I must admit that I
- often don't have a picture of how the answer should look in my mind. So
- maybe it all comes domn to a question of motivation.
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