itaibn0 comments on How to teach to magical thinkers?

itaibn0 24 Feb 2014 20:08 UTC
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And perhaps replace it with something more enlightened, such as: “all sides of a triangle are equal, even if their lengths may be different”.

That’s already been done
- A1987dM 25 Feb 2014 9:14 UTC
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  “A topologist is someone who can’t tell the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground.”
  - satt 26 Feb 2014 4:26 UTC
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    Are those two things really homeomorphic? A topologist’s arse has a hole running all the way through it, but a pit in the ground’s only open at one end. You might say: go far enough into a bottom and eventually you reach a hole; go far enough into a hole and eventually you reach a bottom.
    
    (Sorry. I’ll go to bed now.)