> As someone who mostly only applies math, that strikes me as a peculiarly academic take.
Yeah I was talking strictly about preparing students to become pure mathematicians. No opinion here on other goals.
Yeah I was talking strictly about preparing students to become pure mathematicians. No opinion here on other goals.
Of course, it's too much work for most normal purposes, and in school they accepted whatever random breakdown people used inconsistently and never explained why.
Actually understanding that it wasn't about convincing anyone so much as having a chain of reasoning going all the way back to the axioms was something of a revelation for me.