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Both Methods (I) & (II) below does not use Algebra, which is not taught to primary school kids until secondary school (above 12 or 13 years old). (I) Ancient Chinese Arithmetic Method: 例2：The…

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Different Maths: 1. English (UK/USA) Math is playfully tricky (Math Olympiad, Math Puzzles eg. this Numberpile video) 2. French Math is abstractly theoretical (Group theory explains Symmetry, Rubik’s cube game,… ) 3. Chinese…

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https://theconversation.com/i-build-mathematical-programs-that-could-discover-the-drugs-of-the-future-110689?from=timeline Advanced Mathematical Methods with AI is a powerful tool: Algebraic Topology (Persistent Homology) Differential Geometry Graph Theory https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/mathematical-molecular-bioscience-and-biophysics-1

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Mathematics and quantitative finance, France Since 1990, there have been 22 winners of the Fields Medal, widely regarded as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Thirteen came from just two countries, Russia and France.…

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Urbain Le Verrier, Who Discovered Neptune https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/03/11/happy-birthday-to-urbain-le-verrier-who-discovered-neptune-with-math-alone/

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Example:4% of 75 = 75% of 4 Mental Steps: 75 x 4 – > 300 – > / 100 – > ＝ 3 (ANS. )Is it easier ?

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The Foundation of Modern Math which is based on the “Set Theory”, hit a crisis due to Bertrand Russell “Barber’s Paradox”, until the Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms came to its rescue. Here is a humorous…

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Answer to Why can humans understand abstract mathematics if such things were never needed in our ancestral environment? Is it a fluke?

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https://youtu.be/RLuqMxZiTQM Challenge: Put ’15’ and ’14’ in the right sequence (Impossible! ) 以下无解：群论

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“Essential mathematical GIFs that will make mathematics finally make sense” by Ali Kayaspor https://link.medium.com/z1nWgHm9GU

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1. Lagrange Theorem: Order of subgroup H divides order of Group G Converse false: having h | g does not imply there exists a subgroup H of order h. Example: Z3 = {0,1,2}…

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陈省身香港科技大学 演讲经典 (Highly Recommended – spoken in English & Chinese) http://www.bilibili.com/video/av5473133 他的女婿是香港科大校长。现任校长是 Prof 陈繁星 Tony F. Chan , the ‘Search Algorithm Thesis’ supervising Prof of the 2 Google founders in Stanford University, Applied…

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Since Ancient Greek : Euclid had proved there are infinite primes. Sieve of Eratosthenes to enumerate the primes. Recent time 3 Mathematicians GPY attempted another Sieve method to find the bounded gap (N)…

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浙江临海市 算盘博物管主人 雷国华 收藏算盘20年，散尽储蓄，感慨涕下不已。 https://youtu.be/d3ua6tz4Gos 中国的算盘上面2珠 (2×5)，下面5珠(5)， 共15，加1 = 16 进位。古代是16位 (Hexadecimal) 制， 半斤 八两 (= 1/2 斤 x 16 两 = 8 两)。 日本改良成10位制: 上面1珠 (1×5)，下面4珠(4)， 共9，加1 = 10 进位。 https://youtu.be/DiHfHJAjAlk

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《十二平均律》 是明朝 ＂布衣王子＂ 朱载堉 (1536年－1610年) 发明的，由当时在中国传教的意大利人 利马窦 (Matteo Ricci, 1552 – 1610), 传给欧洲的法国数学家 Marin Mersenne (Mersenne Prime ) 。现代音乐之父 巴哈 Bach 第一个采用，制作世界第一架钢琴有12黑白键，并作曲 《Bach 12-tone Equal Temperament》。 朱载堉把 “1” 到 “i” 的八度 (Octave) 分为等比…

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Julius Wilhelmina Richard Dedekind (6 Oct 1831 – 12 Feb 1916) – Last student of Gauss at Göttingen – Student and closed friend of Dirichlet who influenced his Mathematical education – Introduced the…

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Key Notes: Rational Numbers Q eg. 1/2, … Complete but non Continuous. Irrational numbers eg. Real number is Complete and Continuous Dedekind Cut The Proof of “0.999… = 1” by using Set Theory…

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Bit Coin is only one application of Block Chain. https://youtu.be/g_fSistU3MQ

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FINAL EPISODE – Riemann Complex Plane : 4 dimension but viewed in 3 dimensions Episode 1 – 9 : History Episode 10: Complex function Function : 1 input mapped to 1 output Multi-function…

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Simplest explanation by Cheh Wu: (4 Parts Video : auto-play after each part) Revision: Dot Product of Vectors https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra/vectors-and-spaces/dot-cross-products/v/vector-dot-product-and-vector-length Gradient Descent (opposite = Ascent) https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/multivariable-derivatives/gradient-and-directional-derivatives/v/why-the-gradient-is-the-direction-of-steepest-ascent