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What is CoolStuff?
It was invented on May 18th, 2007 (by Oleg Ivrii and Zavosh Amir-Khosravi). Giving a "rigorous" defintion of CoolStuff is against our philosophy, so I will only give some guidelines which qualify stuff to be cool:
- The process of CoolStuff is to learn mathematics by application. Here at CoolStuff, we believe that to understand a subject is to see it used in action.
- By its nature, it is elementary, simple, elegant and intuitive. Sometimes, it could even be accessible to highschool students if it did not use a simple fact from topology or abstract algebra. Nevertheless, CoolStuff benefits from its highly intelligent audience.
- CoolStuff does not belong to a single subject, it draws from all of mathematics. By its nature, it cannot be found in a university classroom, which
tries to partition all of mathematics into "subjects".
- CoolStuff should be able to stand by itself as a final result, with no applications in mind (even though, applications make it even more cool).
- When it is a well-known theory, the focus is on showing examples rather than dunking theorems one by one.
Of course, classical university education has its merits too :-).
CoolStuff is now organized by Yuri Burda. Contact (in person, or by email) if you are interested in giving a talk.
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