Playing
With Fire
—
essentials mathematics explained by dumb practical man based on damn experience
ABSTRACT
These
simple article in mathematics are intended as a glance highlight of operations
and methods provided basic algebraic techniques, analytic geometry,
trigonometry, also differential and integral calculus.
Keyword:
Mathematics; Natural
Science;
INTRODUCTION
When
I found Natalia L. Komarova’s lecture on calculus, I like it. Natalia was
physics background that teaching mathematics also researching biological
problem as well. I back- street with calculus because I need physics trajectory
to bring quantum in secondary school, but obstacled by Maxwell’s Equations that
must be solved before I play in relativity and quantum.
Richard
Phillips Feynman in him book and Erica Carlson in her lecture, both on Maxwell
Equations, make me aware that all calculus concept must be mastered by
every dumb people. Maxwell’s equations has been unifying electricity and
magnetism into one force, in firts, then showed that electromagnetic fields
could propagate through space as a wave. It is key to the kingdom, the kingdom
of science, a kingdom that now led by pelakor claimed as the queen of science!
Damn it! (Indonesia: dhemit!).
In
the introduction of course, Natalia suggests her students (and huge fans) to
use Calculus Early Transcendentals by James Stewart. Lucky me, I found
that book quickly—not so quick if you comparing with Jin Ifrit! “Success in
calculus depends to a large extent on knowledge of the mathematics that
precedes calculus: algebra, analytic geometry, functions, and trigonometry.”
wrote James in Diagnostic Test, maybe the great part on this book.
Diagnostic
Test contains
several mathematical problems that must be solved consciously before we playing
with fire—I mean calculus. I say calculus is fire—or more precicely calculus
analogue with fire—because it mathematics field that having more dynamic and
less static problems, since it concernes with change quantitites. Other reason,
mathematics is not physics, so I must make a different analogue. While
physics’s analogue usually with 2NE1, other science incluce formal science like
mathematics never using 2NE1—and playing with fire is BLACKPINK. It’s my
simple way to remember something without memories consciously.
I
have been giving extensive attention to mathematics. In fact, I injecting
mathematics in every my teaching—english language for children, biology, and qiro’at
al-kutub al-turots. I does not propose rejecting that mathematics arises
wherever people think about the nature of nature also world of ideas as well.
Sometimes mathematics embodied in laws and even theology. For this case, I make
a good deal with Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghozali’s words in him al-Munqidh min
al-Dholal, that nothing in mathematics relates positively or negatively to
religious matters.
Mathematics
is constantly growing, mostly because in modern science laws of nature are
usually phrased in ‘this God language’. The allien growth of mathematics which
is used in the most advanced work of theoretical physics, for example, was not
developed by mathematicians alone, but to a large extent by theoretical
physicists themselves (or mathematician that wes taubat from mathematics
like Freeman John Dyson). Put simply example: Isaac Newton, James Clerk
Maxeell, and Richard Phillips Feynman, to mention but few.
Ironically,
at the same time mathematics can be an obstacle to physics (or more general
natural science) students. A good example, of cource, meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. In
serious condition, example in string theory, mathematics even led physics
astray. Physics is based on experimental observations and quantitative
measurements. When a discrepancy between physics theory and experiment arises,
new theories must be formulated to remove the discrepancy. It is not like
mathematics, that treats demonstrable axioms which in no way can be denied once
they are understood (this God language, don’t denied if you’re kaum beriman).
These
simple article in mathematics are intended as a glance highlight of operations
and methods. Early in this part, we should be totally familiar with basic
algebraic techniques, analytic geometry, and trigonometry. The part on
differential and integral calculus are more detailed and are intended for
people who have difficulty applying calculus concepts to physical situations
(of course it mean meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee).
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