Timeline for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics lectures?
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| Jun 8, 2010 at 14:16 | comment | added | jeremy | +1 because, I assure you, most physicists find most physics books unreadable, too! Most of my carrier has involved secretly hoarding the few good texts I can find so I can actually learn things ;). But this has to do with most physics books leaving out the intuitive explanations, like many math books do, but also having no rigor and care to fall back on. So many physics texts just end up with nothing! | |
| Jun 8, 2010 at 14:14 | comment | added | Andy Putman | +1 Andrea! Personally, I think the diagonal argument is the perfect "lecture proof" : it's short, has no real technicalities, is instantly memorable, and has a shocking conclusion. Of course, you made the mistake of insulting my favorite proof in all of mathematics <grin>. One point I think we might agree on is that lectures are poor vehicles for going through the details of long or technical proofs. I often find myself substituting examples for such proofs in my own lectures. However, I have also found that undergraduates sometimes feel shortchanged if you don't "prove everything"... | |
| Jun 8, 2010 at 13:31 | comment | added | Andrea Ferretti | The kind of lecture a students of math and a student of physics appreciate can be drastically different, though. For instance I find most of physics books unreadable, but I guess it is just a different habit. | |
| Jun 8, 2010 at 7:09 | history | answered | jeremy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |