Timeline for Most harmful heuristic?
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | Juan Sebastian Lozano | Well, I think most good teaching is either motivated theory or theoretically sound applications, because these two things should almost never live without each other. | |
| May 29, 2015 at 0:12 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Both of your points are true. It is a good idea to bring up the Jordan normal form before the theory of modules over a PID, but it is not at all necessary to teach its proof and the algorithm before the general case of a PID. | |
| May 28, 2015 at 23:01 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2015 at 22:14 | comment | added | Vectornaut | As a counterpoint, I never understood Jordan normal form until I learned that it was a special case of the classification of finitely generated modules over a PID. In other words, my difficulty with Jordan normal form came from teaching this application of representation theory before the subject! | |
| S May 28, 2015 at 21:36 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S May 28, 2015 at 21:36 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Michael |