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@matematico314
Ah! One of my all-time favorite classes was a course on the Lebesgue integral taught by the inimitable David Bressoud. We studied it in historical order: encountering problems as mathematicians encountered them in the 19th century, proving a theorem one week that turned out to be false the next week, sharpening definitions as we went in true Lakatos style. It was wonderful.
Thanks for the meme-y memories!
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@inthehands @matematico314 omg that class sounds amazing. I have so much math squirrelled away in my head (dual major technically but ended up in industry as a code monkey using very little of it) but we weren't often taught it in historical context so most of what I have is just a name associated with a theorem.
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@r343l @matematico314
If you want to take the journey yourself, we mostly followed this book:
https://bookstore.ams.org/chel-282/
It’s pretty thick going; I doubt I’d have made it very far on my own without the help of the course structure! But if you are feeling adventurous….
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@inthehands @matematico314 Lol. I will add it to my queue after I work through my Abstract Algebra text (making myself do all the exercises...) and complex analysis. Ha!
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