Prof. Gowers providing an easy, lucid explanation to the viral tiktok video questioning the need for algebra. Good read for my friends who have math-scaries
Here's an attempt at an answer to the question "How would anyone think of algebra?" (a genre of question that I very much like).
Suppose I'm a certain number of miles away, and I come back at a certain number of miles per hour. 1/
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.@jonathanvswan: “Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.”
@realdonaldtrump: “You can’t do that.”
Swan: “Why can’t I do that?”
The home run theory of careers:
What matters is eventually hitting a home run, and the way to do that is training hard and a lot of at-bats. You only have to be right once, and it's ok to be wrong a lot of times.
Be bold. Move fast. Work hard. Ignore haters. Keep swinging.