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What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.
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Laurent Schwartz
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IN THE SCHOOLS Memorizing multiplication tables may be a seminal school experience, among the few that kids today share with their grandparents. But a Stanford University professor says rapid-fire math drills are also the reason so many children fear and despise the subject. Moreover, the traditional approach to math instruction β€” memorization, timed testing and the pressure to speedily arrive at answers β€” may actually damage advanced-level skills by undermining the development of a deeper understanding about the ways numbers work. β€œThere is a common and damaging misconception in mathematics β€” the idea that strong math students are fast math students,” says Jo Boaler, who teaches math education at the California university and has authored a new paper, β€œFluency Without Fear.” In fact, many mathematicians are not speedy calculators, Boaler says. Laurent Schwartz, the French mathematician whose work is considered key to the theory of partial differential equations, wrote that as a student he often felt stupid because he was among the slowest math-thinkers in class.
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Anonymous
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Distribution theory was one of the two great revolutions in mathematical analysis in the 20th century. It can be thought of as the completion of differential calculus, just as the other great revolution, measure theory (or Lebesgue integration theory), can be thought of as the completion of integral calculus. There are many parallels between the two revolutions. Both were created by young, highly individualistic French mathematicians (Henri Lebesgue and Laurent Schwartz). Both were rapidly assimilated by the mathematical community, and opened up new worlds of mathematical development. Both forced a complete rethinking of all mathematical analysis that had come before, and basically altered the nature of the questions that mathematical analysts asked.
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Robert S. Strichartz (A Guide to Distribution Theory and Fourier Transforms)
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Distribution theory was one of the two great revolutions in mathematical analysis in the 20th century. It can be thought of as the completion of differential calculus, just as the other great revolution, measure theory (or Lebesgue integration theory), can be thought of as the completion of integral calculus. There are many parallels between the two revolutions. Both were created by young, highly individualistic French mathematicians (Henri Lebesgue and Laurent Schwartz). Both were rapidly assimilated by the mathematical community, and opened up new worlds of mathematical development. Both forced a complete rethinking of all mathematical analysis that had come before, and basically altered the nature of the questions that mathematical analysts asked.
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Robert S. Strichartz (A Guide to Distribution Theory and Fourier Transforms)