muriel and Scott Carter brought to my attention to a recent paper in Science, The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math, by Jennifer A. Kaminski, Vladimir M. Sloutsky and Andrew F. Heckler. It appears to make quite a splash. From abstract:
Undergraduate students may benefit more from learning mathematics through a single abstract, symbolic representation [...]
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Quite a splash
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Linear independence
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Linear independence over of numbers
is equivalent to uniqueness of decomposition of integers into a product of prime numbers. This observation, apparently, belongs to Harad Bohr.
