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KGIII
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Baffling ABC maths proof now has impenetrable 300-...
Mathematics is a language. You don't really need to memorize it, you can read it. Unfortunately, most people aren't exposed to anything higher than arithmetic.
posterboy
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yeah, well, have fun reading e.g. the stacks project[1] of round about 4000 pages without remember the necessary steps leading up to a corollary.
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https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/browse
- abstract algebra as far as I can tell
KGIII
on Sept 11, 2017
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You're sure as hell not going to memorize it.
Koshkin
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I remember having to memorize the multiplication table. And that was just the beginning...
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