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I like the idea but I personally really enjoy and prefer 'math english'. At first it may seems odd but after a while you get used to it and it's actually easier

I like the idea but I personally really enjoy and prefer 'math english'. At first it may seems odd but after a while you get used to it and it's actually easier, you just scan through epsilons, deltas knowing exactly what they mean. Intuition has edge-case scenarios, double-meanings and almost-truths. I don't know why, but I think intuition (pseudocode math as someone had named it) gives a little bit of a 'illusion' of knowledge. You think you got it but are you really?

kalid 12y ago
Great point. I use the word "intuition" but feel it might be overloaded, things with intuitive knowledge, psychics, going with your gut despite the facts, etc. The sense I mean is closer to "grokking" or "clicking", when symbols and definitions actually mean something. You start thinking with the symbols, not despite them. You actually look forward to checking your understanding with real problems, because when it clicks the problems become easy :).