Jon Sterling on Nostr: OMG. I am immediately getting owned by the fact that students always try to prove ...
OMG. I am immediately getting owned by the fact that students always try to prove even the simplest things by contradiction...
Honestly, I love classical math and find it to be worth teaching. But this kind of thing makes me think that we actually should not start students off with classical math... They make things so complicated.
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