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james1071 on May 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs

I am not so convinced of the merits of SMP, having done it myself.

It included some interesting things, but left out a lot of traditional pure and applied maths (especially mechanics).

analog31 on May 10, 2015 | [–]

What happened in the US during my generation, was that every student with an interest in math, also took physics. And physics was very much taught as applied math.

keithpeter on May 13, 2015 | [–]

Have you ever missed the mechanics?

The group theory stuff made things a lot easier for me later.

I imagine this is all fairly random.

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