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Or as mathematician Paul Halmos said: "Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypoth
by ghufran_syed 3y ago
Or as mathematician Paul Halmos said: "Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?"
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halmos/quotations/#:~:text=of%20released%20tension.-,I%20want%20to%20be%20a%20Mathematician%2C%20(Washington%201985).,examples%2C%20discover%20your%20own%20proofs https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halmos/quo....
- moffkalast 3y agoOr as the modern school system would say: "Shut up and stop asking things, look at the examples in your textbook and memorize this proof I've written onto the blackboard. The test will only verify if you can apply the process like a robot, so understand it if you want but I couldn't care less if you actually do."