I simple do not learn well via sequential access. I much prefer wiki style jumping around. I don’t want to read a whole book or chapter straight through. It is painful not being able to click on links to get more in-depth information about what that particular idea is.
Archive for May, 2008
The Harms of Sequential Access
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Idea for math website
Saturday, May 10th, 2008It would be really cool if there was a website set up for books. It would be collaboration based. There would be a book that people would read. There would be problems associated with said book. For each of the problems there would be answers that are available. There would be multiple levels of answers, first there is just the answer, then there is there are the calculations, then there are the reasoning behind the calculations, then there may even be more like why we went about solving it the way we did. And there will be easy way to make forum posts about each question and it would be linked so that it would be easy to find all posts that relate to that question. All of this content would also be wiki editable to allow for maximum crowd sourcing.
What will my legacy be?
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Today I read in my math book about a Mathematician who wrote a book before formally studying math. He gave it out only to friends (because presumably other didn’t want it). Later he went to Cambridge and died 4 years after graduating. Finally someone realized the importance of his book and now he has a section of my Math book dedicated to him.