Universal rule that I must always have one mathematical concept that feels completely unintuitive. Right now it’s logarithms.

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Hmm, I actually think it’s more the operations for manipulating them that feels unintuitive. I’m about 15% through MFII so haven’t got around to things like integrations yet.

LJ book: Metaphors We Live By?

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Hmm, I actually think it’s more the operations for manipulating them that feels unintuitive. I’m about 15% through MFII so haven’t got around to things like integrations yet.

LJ book: Metaphors We Live By?
https://www.mathacademy.com/courses/mathematical-foundations-ii

Natural or decimal?

Natural feels natural to me. Integrate 1/x and give it a name. Iirc the Lakoff/Johnson book constructs a conceptual metaphor argument for Euler’s equation.