Aleksandra Fedorova :fedora: on Nostr: When I grew up, it became a joke about Pure Maths and Applied Maths. Professor at the ...
When I grew up, it became a joke about Pure Maths and Applied Maths.
Professor at the Uni gave us a task of calculating the curvature of the torus. And a friend went that long path of calculating the curvature via metric functions.
But torus have sections with two different circles, and you can get the curvature with zero calculation from that fact.
That day I understood that real Maths is all about "cheating" your way out of calculations.
Professor at the Uni gave us a task of calculating the curvature of the torus. And a friend went that long path of calculating the curvature via metric functions.
But torus have sections with two different circles, and you can get the curvature with zero calculation from that fact.
That day I understood that real Maths is all about "cheating" your way out of calculations.