Re: memorization: Don't tell people not to memorize.

What you meant to say is memorization is necessary but not sufficient. If you really didn't memorize, you couldn't answer "What is a derivative?" It would be as unrecognizable as "What is a Jabberwocky?"

The mind is great at synthesizing material and discovering patterns, but you have to feed it the material first.

Von Neumann said: "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."