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Funny how utterly natural and subconsious this stuff becomes after a while. I almost felt like commenting something snyde about how superfluous it is to make it
by tw1010 9y ago
Funny how utterly natural and subconsious this stuff becomes after a while. I almost felt like commenting something snyde about how superfluous it is to make it this explicit, but then I realized that it was only a few years ago that it made my consious brain totally overwhelmed.
- opportune 9y agoYeah at first I was thinking "is this not the only way of understanding written mathematics?!!" Then I realized that when I was a freshman undergrad, I understood much less than half of the terminology that is considered basic mathematics. The formalisms behind WOLOG and \forall \epsilon >0 \exists \delta > 0 s.t. yadda yadda were completely lost on me. A lot of mathematics is simply familiarity, and that's easy to forget
- trentmb 9y ago> A lot of mathematics is simply familiarity, and that's easy to forget There's nothing special about mathematics in this regard.