>If you want to tell someone that exponentiating an area gives a rotation, you need to basically deal with the fact that that sentence sounds like nonsense.
It's not just an area though, it's an area with orientation and magnitude. It's the complex exponential function extended to 3 dimensions.
>By "unpedagogical" I mean: very hard to learn, and even when you learn it, often hard to explain. It's information that doesn't compress well, generalize well, or really convey direct understanding of what's going on. Maybe not the best word for this. Really, I just mean "bad".
I can see where you're coming from on the learning part. There are as many different ways of learning GA as there are teachers, and this does hold it back.
>To me it's incomplete knowledge; it needs to be improved upon so that it makes more sense for people who need to know it. In doing so it will also become easier to learn.
I wish you luck, and I hope that I find it on here someday.
It's not just an area though, it's an area with orientation and magnitude. It's the complex exponential function extended to 3 dimensions.
>By "unpedagogical" I mean: very hard to learn, and even when you learn it, often hard to explain. It's information that doesn't compress well, generalize well, or really convey direct understanding of what's going on. Maybe not the best word for this. Really, I just mean "bad".
I can see where you're coming from on the learning part. There are as many different ways of learning GA as there are teachers, and this does hold it back.
>To me it's incomplete knowledge; it needs to be improved upon so that it makes more sense for people who need to know it. In doing so it will also become easier to learn.
I wish you luck, and I hope that I find it on here someday.