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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by ancarda on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:22AM (#13687972)
Thanks for the link, I skimmed through the Direct Proof PDF - it seems very complicated. I have done some Discrete Math which I found fairly understandable once I went over it a few times as I could link it back to computer science. It was kinda like learning a very terse programming language.
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Re:If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (2013) by khedoros1 on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:20PM (#13689562)
One of the things that I used to do with knew math ideas was to write a program that illustrates them, then tweak values in the program to get a better intuitive feel for how the math works.

I usually come to understand the concept through experimentation that way, and from that point the actual notation doesn't matter as much (although it's still like reading a foreign language, to a certain degree).

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