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Yep, I agree with your points about pure intuition leading you down blind alleys unless you have some structure in place. For the examples, my approach is defi
by kalid 17y ago
Yep, I agree with your points about pure intuition leading you down blind alleys unless you have some structure in place.
For the examples, my approach is definitely tailored for people who need to grok the subject after getting a rote understanding. It's not so much to become an expert but to realize what insights would help on the path to becoming an expert.
I figure there are thousands of other sites for the formal definition and practice problems :). I'll check out the article now, looks interesting.
- billswift 17y agoI studied calculus on my own in my twenties, and I think the textbooks' focus on rigor led me down a lot of blind alleys before I started trying to come to an intuitive, often graphical, understanding of the problem before attacking the rigorous view. (There is a good textbook from 1977 that was reprinted by Dover in 1998, Morris Kline's "Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach", that I wish I had available when I was studying.)