{"id":10168,"date":"2019-09-27T04:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:19:11","slug":"how-to-learn-abstract-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/27\/how-to-learn-abstract-math\/","title":{"rendered":"How to learn abstract math?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"507\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190927_042645_2.jpg\" alt=\"How to learn abstract math?\" class=\"wp-image-10167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190927_042645_2.jpg 507w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190927_042645_2-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><figcaption>How to learn abstract math?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You could do worse than to start with Khan Academy, but there are some experts here on campus who could answer that question in depth: the Math Department: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-math-dept\">bit.ly\/bc-math-dept<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw093019-2.jpg\" alt=\"First, you need to believe that in some cases, 2=5. Second, you need to realize that on some level, IR^&gt;\/=0 is IR. Third, you need to see that there are two triangles on a donut.\" class=\"wp-image-10223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw093019-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw093019-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw093019-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/aw093019-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>First, you need to believe that in some cases, 2=5. Second, you need to realize that on some level, IR^&gt;\/=0 is IR. Third, you need to see that there are two triangles on a donut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nSounds like this is the math version of believing 6 impossible things before breakfast?\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could do worse than to start with Khan Academy, but there are some experts here on campus who could answer that question in depth: the Math Department: bit.ly\/bc-math-dept Sounds like this is the math version of believing 6 impossible things before breakfast?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[792,99],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","tag-abstract","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}