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Wrong: math is neither hard nor difficult. It is this single belief that deters many people from learning it. Math is all about logic. It is nothing but how to
by untake 5y ago
Wrong: math is neither hard nor difficult. It is this single belief that deters many people from learning it. Math is all about logic. It is nothing but how to go from A to B. Any person who can reason should be able to be good at math.
- eternityforest 5y agoAll over the world many people try to learn French. Almost any would tell you that learning a second language is hard. Nobody will fight you on this. Math is a language to express entirely new concepts thar have nothing to do with everyday thinking and often include things like recursion that makes them impossible to reason about without more than just a few bytes of mental RAM. There is no step by step algorithmic process to do it. If there were, a computer would be able to do it and far fewer people would want to learn. Even at the level where there is an algorithm, it's far too big, nobody hand executes the source code of XCas by hand. Math seems to require not just a skill that can be learned, but an inate ability to deal with multiple connected pieces of information at once, and to see abstract patterns in things. In programming, if you have to understand more than one tiny bit at a time, you might consider tossing it and starting over. In math it's just normal for lots of ideas to connect.