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> From: owner-extropians@extropy.com
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> I have lost most of my mathematical skills with age. When I was a
> teenager, everything I ever did was easy, up to real analysis and
> approximation theory.
My opinion is that math is generally taught in a backward order. They ought
to begin with real analysis, maybe not in first grade, but surely by
highschool. I found that until I took real analysis (as a junior in
college, majoring in math) I never REALLY understood calculus or
differential equations.
Bonnie
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