[hanoz]

Didn't most of us get in to this mathsy line of work precisely because we didn't need to memorise a load of stuff and could just work things out from first principles as and when required?

[burkaman]

I don't like coding interviews, but this list is for practice, not memorization. Ideally you could solve all of these from first principles.

[eesmith]

I remember memorizing a load of stuff for my math degree. How did you write proofs without memorizing terms like "Method of Frobenius", "triangle inequality", "Zorn's lemma", "Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem", "Cantor diagonalization", and so on?

[curiousgal]

Thank you! It's really sad seeing what this field has turned into.

[mathattack]

This is certainly why I enjoyed Calculus and Physics. :-)