Wow, (potentially) omitting vectors seems like a big gap. Obviously it has huge direct practical use, but it’s probably also the first introduction to how you can take a structure and augment it with operations. In that way it’s the first step on the road to abstract mathematics.
Wow, (potentially) omitting vectors seems like a big gap. Obviously it has huge direct practical use, but it’s probably also the first introduction to how you can take a structure and augment it with operations. In that way it’s the first step on the road to abstract mathematics.