Pleasant, useful, accurate
Sep. 21st, 2005 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbeThat's what I'm looking for in trigonometry!
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"Professor Wildberger says that distance is not the best way to measure the separation of two points and an angle is not the best way to measure the separation of two lines.
"'It's not the concept that leads to a mathematics that is the most pleasant and the most useful and the most accurate,' he said."
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daoistraver:"Professor Wildberger says that distance is not the best way to measure the separation of two points and an angle is not the best way to measure the separation of two lines.
"'It's not the concept that leads to a mathematics that is the most pleasant and the most useful and the most accurate,' he said."
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Date: 2005-09-21 10:29 pm (UTC)Do you know that in the entire year that I took Trigonometry, and HATED it, in high school, not a single person ever said to me: The key purpose of trigonometry is to understand the relationships between the corners and sides of triangles.
I hate math teachers.