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by KGIII 3203 days ago
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.
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posterboy 3203 days ago
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.

[1] https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/browse - abstract algebra as far as I can tell

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KGIII 3202 days ago
You're sure as hell not going to memorize it.
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Koshkin 3202 days ago
I remember having to memorize the multiplication table. And that was just the beginning...
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