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Welll you clearly love math but it ain't my cup of tea....
Right. Let's explain recursive objects to 4th graders because adults understand them so well. Good for you Rick but the entirety of Turing's pre-WWII career as a math factotum added very little to the story of his life, setting aside the "Commutable Numbers" paper. The determinist/non-determinist dichotomy could have been explained without an upper level course in quantum mechanics, which added very little to Turing's story or his own big ideas.
So, true. The reason math is not taught well in school is because the teachers teaching it don't understand it.
The math was the most fascinating part of the book for me.
I'm with you.
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Right. Let's explain recursive objects to 4th graders because adults understand them so well. Good for you Rick but the entirety of Turing's pre-WWII career as a math factotum added very little to the story of his life, setting aside the "Commutable Numbers" paper. The determinist/non-determinist dichotomy could have been explained without an upper level course in quantum mechanics, which added very little to Turing's story or his own big ideas.
So, true. The reason math is not taught well in school is because the teachers teaching it don't understand it.
The math was the most fascinating part of the book for me.I'm with you.
