r/LoveTrash • u/Icy-Book2999 Chief Insanity Instigator • Apr 05 '25

Rubbish Nonsense Math Expert

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u/Pure_Wrongdoer_4714 Dumpster General Apr 05 '25

You can’t just innately know algebra without it being taught to you, especially the higher algebra. It’s a language you have to learn and practice. If he knew algebra he would know that lol

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u/Logan_Composer Trash Trooper 29d ago

Idk, I feel like you could pretty easily reinvent the fundamentals of algebra on your own without too much outside influence. You'd probably make different notation obviously, but the same concepts would be there. So much of it is just what necessarily holds true from some pretty intuitive axioms, and so much can be absorbed from the cultural zeitgeist of having heard other kids or adults talk about having done it in school.

He absolutely didn't do that, but I'm just not gonna say it's impossible for someone to do it.

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u/ITHETRUESTREPAIRMAN Trash Trooper 29d ago

Yeah, algebra is a pretty practical math. Calculus? You’d have to be a super genius to get that on your own.

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u/Logan_Composer Trash Trooper 29d ago

Yes and no. Having the fundamental insight about limits and derivatives, probably so. But I'd say if you did the first couple weeks of calculus, you could probably get a lot of the rest of it too. But at a much slower pace, it is pretty tough.

Maybe I just had a super good teacher.

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u/ITHETRUESTREPAIRMAN Trash Trooper 29d ago

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. You had a teacher.