Re: Completely OT: more videos from Lutemann

Andrew Schulman wrote:
Yes.

I'd recommend recreational math instead of formal training. Things like Sudoku, card games, gambling, puzzles, programing computers.

Games are an excellent introduction to maths. I played NIM in an 8th grade math competition, which is an interesting pattern about how games work and has some interesting implications about social systems too.

Maths are not just about what's traditionally taught in schools. Ideas about rational and irrational numbers can be understood without a great deal of algebra or geometry so number theory is not something you have to wait to explore after you master some other maths.

So far I'm enjoying this book Will recommended and it references many of the fun topics in maths and science. Another book by Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, seems to be woven into the fabric of The Baroque Cycle but I have not read it.
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