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Some courses in my university were restricted to students in their third year or above because of "mathematical maturity", which I thought was complete BS becau
by anubhavs 2y ago
Some courses in my university were restricted to students in their third year or above because of "mathematical maturity", which I thought was complete BS because some of the courses had no other prerequisites. But after taking some of them, I get it. There's a general sense of problem solving flow that takes time to develop.
- HPsquared 2y agoIn mathematics in particular, one abstraction is built on top of another. It's like trying to read without knowing the alphabet.
- H8crilA 2y agoI often refer to this quite explicitly, something like "my skills include reading and writing modern math", as if it was a foreign language, or musical notation.
- Ekaros 2y agoI wonder if part of this is also not wanting to list all of the pre-requisites that are at least partly needed.