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My pet peeve math term is "clear". A long time ago I thought could teach myself group theory by buying the Springer group theory book and reading it from chapte
by gosub100 1y ago
My pet peeve math term is "clear". A long time ago I thought could teach myself group theory by buying the Springer group theory book and reading it from chapter 1, 1 page at a time. But I was blocked within the first 5 pages because the axioms and first few proofs kept saying how "clear" it was that all the results followed. Unfortunately, it was not "clear" to me :(
- JadeNB 1y ago> the Springer group theory book I am skeptical that this uniquely identifies a book (unless you mean the book "Linear Algebraic Groups" by the author called Springer, rather than the publisher called Springer, in which case it's definitely not the way to start learning group theory!).
- gosub100 1y agoIt was the yellow Springer publishing book. Happened 20+ years ago now, cannot recall the author. IIRC the title was "a course in the theory of groups".
- layer8 1y agoThis one, probably: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-8594-1 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-8594-1 It’s a graduate-level text, to be fair.
- mwcremer 1y agoI had a calc prof who was in the middle of a lecture, "...and as any fool can see, X is..." He stopped, turned around, and said, "You know, sometimes when I say, 'It is intuitively obvious', or, 'As any fool can see', I realize it may not be intuitively obvious, and any fool may not be able to see. But as any fool can see, X is..."