>starting a degree in math and physics this fall >in the meantime taking a summer course in discrete math for comp-sci majors at a local university >professor says something about the sum of to rational numbers is always rational. one of the students asks if he can prove it, and the professor says "no, it's an axiom". >mfw
he makes about 5-6 mistakes every lesson (especially logical fallacies) and everybody just eats it up. is it like this in every math course for comp-sci majors? what would you do?
Levi Gutierrez
>inb4 *two* - it's a typo.
Luis Anderson
>What is a field >What is closure
Adam Ortiz
If it's a summer course it's possible that person is a lecturer and not a prof, basically he's a glorified cs undergrad, that's the problem. Also the sum of a finite number of rationals being a rational is not an axiom, it called fucking addition. The reason why people are eating it up is because they don't care nor do they understand the material. Not all comp sci math courses are like this though, mostly since they can't afford to fuck up basic discrete math since they'd be doubly fucked when trying to program that shit.
Parker Taylor
>>professor says something about the sum of to rational numbers is always rational. one of the students asks if he can prove it, and the professor says "no, it's an axiom".
Kind of, "axiom 0" of a group is closure. It's axiom '0' because you automatically get it from the binary operator +: GxG->G being defined into G.
>is it like this in every math course for comp-sci majors
Yes because they are brainlets.
Colton Hernandez
He probably just brainfarted and meant to use another word instead of "axiom".
It's just a readily apparent result.
Tyler Taylor
>one of the students asks if he can prove it
F.U.C.K
T.H.A.T
G.U.Y
A.N.D
H.I.S
D.E.M.E.N.T.E.D
Q.U.E.S.T.I.O.N.S
T.H.A.T
I.N.T.E.R.R.U.P.T
T.H.E
L.E.C.T.U.R.E
Aaron Ward
I always hated when kids would ask the teacher to prove something, or when the teacher would prove something. Takes like a fucking hour to prove the stupidest shit. I came to university to learn what, not how. Particularly since I'm a physicist who cares waaay more about if it works, than why it works.
Christian Ward
Is this pasta?
Nathaniel Harris
No, I just really loved math class before people felt the need to prove it works. I go to school because I trust that it works. You could learn at least twice as much if you didn't waste time on proofs.
