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		TheOtherHobbes on May 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults? Yes - imagine inventing Fast Fourier Transforms without a computer. Or the original continuous Fourier Transform, with just a pen and paper. Or Heaviside's simplification of the Maxwell equations. Or calculating planetary orbits with perturbations. Incredible leaps of imagination.

jp0d on May 30, 2022 [–]

True indeed. I was patting myself on the back for graduating engineering school without any help from WikiPedia or YouTube. But these legends wrote all those universe describing equations without the help of a computer.

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