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You don’t need much of any theoretical mathematical knowledge to understand monads. What you need is comfort and experience reading mathematical definitions. Fo
by chongli 5y ago
You don’t need much of any theoretical mathematical knowledge to understand monads. What you need is comfort and experience reading mathematical definitions. For most people, that means they’ve studied a lot of math. The famous John von Neumann quote is bang on here:
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
—- John von Neumann
- chobytes 5y agoI agree. Almost all of the difficulty is just not getting how mathematicians think or communicate. Honestly I think a lot of effort is wasted starting with this stuff rather than more motivated examples... But the interest is the harder thing to come by, so at least they're learning something.
- ninkendo 5y agoI don’t mean to stir the pot here, but that’s a pretty unhelpful comment. You could basically rephrase it as “you don’t need a lot of math, you just need a lot of math”.