Notices by zak storer 🎡 (zacts@mastodon.social), page 8

@bthall And Diophantus of Alexandria.

I like the idea of Euclid's Elements. I hope to study with @bthall on this.

s/drills/whatever/... I'm stream of consciousness right now, so don't take everything I say as my final word on anything or whatever. I'm just pondering all of this.

Like High School Jazz band. Students would get through so many scales / solos / etc... they got through what would be very boring to concert band students. It's because of the way it was approached. Then the drills became a tool to get to the next creative idea or expression.

If proofy things were arrived at in a more creative natural fashion, then I wonder.

This idea that mathematics needs to be crammed down everyone's throat.

@lnxw48a1 That's a valid perspective. Perhaps _pushing_ is the issue.

Ok, done.

I'm frustrated with the Mathematics curriculum for sure though. It's overstandardized everywhere. STEM heavy focus. I want Mathemagics.... *ZAP* And the 13th Z was zapped!

I am continuing with the university idea though. I hope to enter into the philosophy program next year. I did meet with some professors who were awesome and encouraging.

I could have easily rushed through a degree and all of that. I would have passed through it. Yeah, I'm glad that I didn't do this. I wouldn't have met half the people I've met either. I had a Greek meetup going for a while. I would have been too busy with that if I focused so heavily on college. I like the idea of work + self-studies for me.

I'm still frustrated a bit with the university/college structures for my goals. Like, I'm looking at this Mathematics+Philosophy path, but it's a challenge. I don't necessarily like the curriculum layout. This is why I still haven't completed a degree after all of these years, but actually I'm kind of glad that I didn't rush it.

@kai Let me catch you on irc. I'll try to join in this week, but this is an important topic to me lately.

@kai https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

@kai Do you remember that PDF I linked you a while back?

@kai Same with music. We shouldn't necessarily take a full historical progression approach to learning music, but having a context for understanding musicians is important.

That being said, I still love these College Algebra lectures.

@kai I feel that Mathematics is much more musical, and a more natural approach would be nice.

@kai I like this yeah! That's kind of what I've been feeling I think.