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agumonkey
on Jan 24, 2017
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A story of a designer learning math
When does one consider math learned ?
mathgenius
on Jan 25, 2017
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When you make it your own somehow. Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Nor is it about rote-learning, although some people try to get by on that.
agumonkey
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But there's a problem, you have to integrate other thinkings, findings and concepts, it cannot only be an internal game.
beachbum8029
on Jan 24, 2017
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When you can write a proof for every mathematical statement that is true.
agumonkey
on Jan 24, 2017
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What about finding creative approaches to unproven statements ?
lotu
on Jan 24, 2017
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beachbum8029 is being silly because the Godel incompleteness theorem stats that is you cannot prove all true statements.
_v7gu
on Jan 25, 2017
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or you can prove some false statements
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