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by castle-bravo 3007 days ago
I don't think you're alone in this. A lot of my coursework is presented as a series of exercises in memorizing solutions to special cases and applying those solutions in a treadmill of quizzes, assignments, and exams. I find myself craving better, more powerful abstractions that subsume the special cases; complex numbers are a great source of satisfaction to me for this reason.