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Mathematics is a language. You don't really need to memorize it, you can read it. Unfortunately, most people aren't exposed to anything higher than arithmetic.
by KGIII 9y ago
Mathematics is a language. You don't really need to memorize it, you can read it. Unfortunately, most people aren't exposed to anything higher than arithmetic.
- posterboy 9y agoyeah, well, have fun reading e.g. the stacks project[1] of round about 4000 pages without remember the necessary steps leading up to a corollary. [1] https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/browse https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/browse - abstract algebra as far as I can tell
- KGIII 9y agoYou're sure as hell not going to memorize it.
- Koshkin 9y agoI remember having to memorize the multiplication table. And that was just the beginning...