“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.” – Galileo Galilei After (suffering) experiencing IGCSE for 1.5 years, I have to say, I’m not amused with the workload I’ve had to deal with, although I know it’ll only get worse from here. Still, I have to say I’m insanely grateful for …
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“The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.” Hermann Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science Part 1 Hermann Weyl must’ve struggled to comprehend that topic you have in your textbook about using matrices to transform a shape, because he doesn’t seem too pleased about matrix transformations, at least judging from the …
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“I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.” –Christiaan Huygens Part 1 In so many things in life, it can’t be helped that we aren’t 100% sure of what will happen. So many are the unknown unknowns and the unknown knowns that at best, we can only say that something …
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.” -Mark Twain. No matter what grade you become or how many exercise books you’ve finished, all math students will return to statistics, the science of collecting, analysing, presenting and interpreting data. Here, I’ll be reflecting on a statistics question mainly concerned about cumulative frequency, the cumulative frequency …
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