1 Learning math with code
This chapter covers
- Solving lucrative problems with math and software
- Avoiding common pitfalls in learning math
- Building on intuition from programming to understand math
- Using Python as a powerful and extensible calculator
Math is like baseball, or poetry, or fine wine. Some people are so fascinated by math that they devote their whole lives to it, while others feel like they just don’t get it. You’ve probably already been forced into one camp or another by twelve years of compulsory math education in school.
What if we learned about fine wine in school like we learned math? I don’t think I’d like wine at all if I got lectured on grape varietals and fermentation techniques for an hour a day, five days a week. Maybe ...
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