Yeah at first I was thinking "is this not the only way of understanding written mathematics?!!"
Then I realized that when I was a freshman undergrad, I understood much less than half of the terminology that is considered basic mathematics. The formalisms behind WOLOG and \forall \epsilon >0 \exists \delta > 0 s.t. yadda yadda were completely lost on me. A lot of mathematics is simply familiarity, and that's easy to forget
Then I realized that when I was a freshman undergrad, I understood much less than half of the terminology that is considered basic mathematics. The formalisms behind WOLOG and \forall \epsilon >0 \exists \delta > 0 s.t. yadda yadda were completely lost on me. A lot of mathematics is simply familiarity, and that's easy to forget