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by napowitzu 4484 days ago
This is true with many, many things. Very often it is the connections between ideas that yields the deep understanding, not the ideas themselves. Focusing too intensely on a single idea or subject results in not making connections and, consequently, not really understanding.
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I think that, for whatever reason, people tend to think mathematics is somehow different.
I agree. I think most if not everything he said can be applied to learning almost any discipline. I studied physics at university and I definitely recognize the authors description.