and other math cartoons
I drew these in collaboration with the fantastic folks at Art of Problem Solving. Check them out!
The Horrors of log(log(log(t)))
Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
and other math cartoons
I drew these in collaboration with the fantastic folks at Art of Problem Solving. Check them out!
I love your blog (got introduced by a former math teacher of mine). And I love Art of Problem Solving classes (who teach math waaay better than him–sorry, man). This is the crossover I didn’t know I needed. But I do, and it’s totally worth it.
Regarding multiplication as repeated addition, I was blown away when I learned that multiplication can be defined as an operation that distributes over addition.
a*1 = 1*a = a
a(b+1) = ab + a
It encompasses the “repeated addition” notion of multiplication, but it does so much more.
Distribution is not just a property.
That last one is painfully true. (As I sit here, avoiding cyclic groups by reading your awesomely bad cartoons).