Re: David's letter to sci.math
From: John C. Polasek (jpolasek_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 03/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:51:12 -0500
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:45:40 GMT, dubious@radioactivex.lebesque-al.net
(Bilge) wrote:
> DavidBowman:
>
> >The really bizarre-ass thing is,
> >I'm dead serious about that.
> >I feel "insufficent" and stupid.
> >And in the unlikely case that
> >anyone wants to know why I
> >get angry when the normals
> >call me "smart", that's it.
>
> There is only one cure for that: work problems - lots of them. No matter
>who explains it to you in the context of answering your question, you will
>never understand how to answer each new question you have unless you start
>answering some questions yourself. The only way to do that and be
>confident that you're answers aren't completely misguided, is to begin
>with questions from a textbook. Struggling to relate the material in the
>textbook to the problems in the textbook works wonders. Once you can
>answer a fair number of textbook questions - in detail - you should
>be fairly confident in knowing whether or not you understand how to
>answer the ones you think of yourself.
For example, compute the redshift halfway through the Earth. You'll
learn quite a bit working on that one.
Mr. Dual Space
If you have something to say, write an equation.
If you have nothing to say, write an essay
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