# Burn Math Class ## Metadata * Author: [Jason Wilkes](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B017QL8UHU * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017QL8UHU * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU) ## Highlights When we’re inventing mathematics from scratch, we always start with an intuitive, everyday human concept. The process of inventing a mathematical concept consists of attempting to translate that vague qualitative idea into a precise quantitative one. — location: [998](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=998) ^ref-47114 --- It turns out that equation 1.3 is trying to tell us about the concept of units. — location: [1072](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1072) ^ref-59273 --- The purpose of math courses is not to create students who know things about math. The purpose of math courses is to create students who know how to think. — location: [1144](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1144) ^ref-42527 --- Mathematics is an entire world where nothing is accidental, and where the mind can train itself with an intensity and precision unmatched by any other subject. — location: [1148](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1148) ^ref-30210 --- Mathematics is NOT about Lines, planes, functions, circles, any of the things you learn about in mathematics courses. Mathematics IS about Sentences that look like: “If this is true, then that is true.” — location: [1153](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1153) ^ref-15945 --- Another way of expressing the same idea is to say that steepness doesn’t depend on your vertical or horizontal position in isolation. — location: [1370](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1370) ^ref-53432 --- People who like jargon call the number M(0) the “y-intercept,” but we can just think of it as whatever number our machine M spits out when we feed it 0. — location: [1722](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B017QL8UHU&location=1722) ^ref-31798 ---