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I mean if you really want to get into the variational principles so fundamental to contemporary theoretical mechanics you'd need a semester of real analysis, at least. Why not just have all physics students complete an undergraduate degree in mathematics before doing any physics? Why is calculus taught twice in the mathematics curricula, first with a focus on computation and later with an emphasis on rigorous argument, why not just teach it all in one go? Why is algebra first taught only with respect to manipulating the axioms of the field of real numbers, why not teach tenth grade algebra in full generality right off the bat?

>>8391469
the funny thing is I actually agree

no reason for math majors to learn 'calculus' first instead of analysis

It's just a waste of time

if you can't handle the material you should just get the fuck out instead of being padded for 2 years

>>8391479
why don't you just kill yourself if you are going to die anyways?

Good question actually

Why not?
Why do we have the cognitive ability to drive a bike when that never happened before someone made a bike.
The evolution of capacities doesn't require it's edges to be requested.

>>8391322
You can use that build up muscle to squat 200kg or you can use it to kick a bear in the head to stun it, or you can run for two days to hunt down a deer with persistence hunting and then carry it back home all the way back.

You can use them in real life for actually useful things... or as a recent turn of events: just look ripped to attract partners. Modern trainings methods are designed to build up muscles in the shortest time possible, they aren't supposed to emulate real life applications of those muscles.

>>8391261
Forgot the article, sorry:
http://www.medicaldaily.com/dna-sperm-ex-partners-lingers-female-flies-and-influences-genetics-her-offspring-305934

>>8391261
>>>/r9k/

>>8391261
Never say never, but what I know about biology from working as a cell biologist tells me this is extremely unlikely. The article said that the mechanism of this phenomenon is that molecules from the previous mating linger in the egg of the female. But in humans the eggs are way up in the ovaries, and very few sperm make it up the fallopian tube. Human sperm are programmed to die pretty quickly.

Contrast to a system like a fly where the sperm is deposited into a special organ called the spermatheca, and eggs are deposited into the spermatheca at regular intervals to be fertilized in sequence. Thus, in flies the sperm are evolved to be more long-lived.

Hopefully this answers your question.

>>8391002
> got cucked on calculus by Newton
You tell me

>>8391025
It clearly says no physicists allowed out, so please show yourself out.

>>8391002
No, Newton is our guy, he pretty much thought of all the stuff Leibniz was thinking even before he thought of it.

>>8390748
>particles
double-slit is not about "particles",
it's about waves

>>8390748
Are you referring to a hidden variable theory?

How do you knows photons are in superposition if you can't measure them? Because all our measurements say that superposition is bullshit.

>>8390668
GED

Not even lying.

>>8390676
In my understanding that's a high-school degree, so none for the purposes of this poll.

>>8390676
Hey, me too!

I'm a term away from my Associate's though.

Computer science is more of a science than social science, at any rate.

>>8390645
I mean like computer science is more like math or logic but not science just wanted to make my point clear if i didn't

>>8390636
How many days have you spent at the lab doing research?
As a bioinformatician I can assure you computer science is science. We have experiments, predictions, the whole deal.

>Why would someone with no knowledge of category theory want to learn it?
its applications to:
algebraic geometry
algebraic topology
abstract algebra
representation theory

>>8390594
It's a handy language to formulate and create analogies between a number of things in the fields described here >>8390632
The reason it seems boring is because it does not seem to talk about anything and it can't really be "applied" to anything. It really just is a different language, but sometimes just formulating things the right way can do wonders.

>>8390632
You forgot logic! Easily the most profound application of category theory IMO. Every type of category gives rise to a logic, and logics give rise to categories.

>He puts equation up but doesn't show how he obtained it.
I swear to god these lazy bastards should go baby sit their grand sons.

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>>8390365
>professor's notations are different than the ones in the book required for the class

>comments on 4chan about how intellectual he is

>>8390277
A lot of elementary number theory is covered in any algebra class that covers rings.

If you can't find suitable lectures, I suggest you start trying to learn from reading books. Many topics won't have any good lectures.

>>8390297
Got any recommendations for a book?

Though to be honest the reason I would prefer a lecture over textbooks is that I'm not used to the mathematical notation used in higher mathematics.

rebump

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>>8390153

>>8390153

>two west asians and two east asians

are other races even trying?

me, but for some reason I'm not I. the picture

>>8389863
The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz

>>8389888
Thank you, anon. Anymore for anymore?

>>8389904
Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk
Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't by Darren Ashby
Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery by Charles Platt

>>8389713
No

>>8389721
why not? wouldn't making a whole new rocket frame cost more than just dissecting a submarine? i mean it's already designed to handle a shitload of stress.

no because subs undergo cycle treatments which effectively renders the metal useless for anything other than subs. they're a complete waste

>>8389622
i have no idea

>>8389622
Wolfram alpha

Why did you snapshot an equation about an iterared integral

Drugs will mess up your brain. Your parents should have told you this, faggot.

>everyone should do them
Of course not. Only people that could benefit from them should use them, just like any other treatment or medication. There is plenty of evidence that certain illicit substances are effective in treating certain illnesses and disorders.

>>8389100
But anon something something Joe Rogan something something PTSD something something altered states of consciousness something meme something Terrence McKenna