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> So why do the algebraists keep on tormenting students with the abstract definition? In my personal experience, the ability to extract the motivation and buil
by sorokod 9y ago
> So why do the algebraists keep on tormenting students with the abstract definition?
In my personal experience, the ability to extract the motivation and build up intuition is considered to be skill that the "students" have to develop for themselves and this is part of their learning process. Those that are not sufficiently successful will fail - and that is OK in such a system.
- posterboy 9y ago> It was hard to write, therefore it should be hard to read and this OK because why don't you go and write the comments never mind that I can't read my own code a months later. Fire and forget!
- gowld 9y agoYou'd prefer that a century of professional mathematicians of the past never have had their careers, since their way of thinking doesn't pass your bar of complexity?