非常值得读的一本数学书 (评论: Math, Better Explained: Learn to Unlock Your Math Intuition)

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　　This books proves how important the teacher is. Even mathematics can be interesting and understandable, when somebody takes time to give you a perspective. I wish I could go back to school now. There's always hope.
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　　4.0 out of 5 stars For people who like reasons., November 24, 2012
　　By Ivan Treagus - See all my reviews
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　　This books very clearly provides explanations that that you can visualise and carry around in your head. Ideal for people who require a common sense explanation of why the mathematical ideas work. It also expands on the basic concepts, such as the Pythagorean relationship, to areas that are not necessarily obvious. It still requires the reader to think about the issues, and maybe re-read, but the insight is well worth it. More maths text books should be written this way
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　　5.0 out of 5 stars Very intuitive way of understanding math concepts, May 6, 2012
　　By Coupon Boy (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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　　I like how this book shows a refreshing perspective to understand math concepts. The way most school textbooks are written without explaining how concepts come about. This book is a great supplement for all students and teachers who are looking for a better way to explain and understand math concepts. I hope school can incorporate the teaching of this book into curriculum.
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　　4.0 out of 5 stars Author helps demystify concepts and paves way for a better understanding of math., December 10, 2011
　　By Romanos Piperakis (Tokyo, JP) - See all my reviews
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　　A lot of math concepts come from the need to solve everyday problems but unfortunately are taught in the classroom in distilled, abstract form that transcends the specific examples it was originally invented for. As such, the intuition behind the abstract concepts is sacrificed at the expense of generalization.
　　
　　The author makes the very useful and widely overlooked point that the intuition behind abstract concepts or theorems can be recovered by reversing the direction from abstract to specific and explaining how one can arrive at applied/concrete instances from the pure/distilled forms.
　　
　　As such the author is not only helping the reader to demystify math (making it more accessible to anyone with common sense) but paves the way for developing modeling skills where those concepts can be successfully applied to real-world problems.
　　
　　This is a very worthwhile undertaking and I would personally love to see the author extend this effort to more concepts e.g. determinants, adjoint/hermitian matrices, regression and function approximation etc. This type of explanations could serve as supplementary math texts or - in the form of wiki where others could share the burden of providing their intuition - as a very valuable reference.
　　
　　Only gave 4 stars for the somewhat random selection of examples to be explained but would recommend this book without any reservations.

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