Identities and Mathematical Intuition: Talk in DPS - Dwarka to DPS Math Teachers

On April 18th, I gave a talk on Identities to Delhi Public School (DPS) Math teachers  attending a training conference/workshop. The teachers were from DPSs all over the country and teach in senior school (XIth-XIIth).


The overall idea of the talk was to organize information about identities according to the three kinds of mathematical intuition I have spoken about earlier. The three kinds of mathematical intuition are: Symbolic, graphical or physical intuition, and structural intuition. These are motivated by the following quote:

…some mathematicians are more endowed with the talent of making pictures, others with that of juggling symbols and yet others with the ability of picking a flaw in an argument.

~Gian Carlo Rota