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Via David Zetland’s Aguanomics comes this reminder (1959) of ‘why math is fun’ worked for kids. He didn’t see it till taking calculus. Can you imagine it being produced now?
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I remember this from grade school and tried to find it for my kids. Some 50 years later still love the square roots line and the billiard scene. There must be thousands of these gems on old media that woud still be useful. Imagine organic chemisstry and molecular bonding in todays computer graphics.
I don’t think so. Cartoons are fun. Math is only fun for the mathematical, and not all of them bother to keep thinking when they “apply” their algorithms to the real world.
Probably would not be done today
The writers still believed the old legend that the Golden Rectangle was used in Greek art and architecture. But only if you use rough measurements; in fact, almost any rectangle can be found, for example, in the Parthenon.
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