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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

If it's obvious, then you didn't need to say it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had an electrodynamics textbook (Griffiths) that was the worst since it did this all the time.

It made studying it really hard because it skipped so many intermediate steps that I couldn't follow it and ended up even more confused.

It was one of the few courses I ended up with a C in, despite trying really hard at it.

It's one of the reasons I ended up in engineering rather than physics or mathematics. The numbers are more intuitive and everything isn't an obscure proof.

[–] A_A 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Albert Einstein is said to have stated: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." i say : pedagogy is as important as mathematics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Quantum mechanics has entered the chat.

[–] affiliate 4 points 1 week ago

the fun thing about this is that the textbooks get more judgy the more advanced the material gets. heres an example from a graduate level algebra textbook by lang.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's when you ask for their proof.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The proof is left to the reader

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They told me the proof was in the pudding after I had already eaten the pudding 😩

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I.E. "I don't feel like writing out the proof." See also: "this is left as an exercise for the reader."

[–] Dicska 2 points 1 week ago

I just absolutely love the transition from the bottom left bit to the next one. Diffemples.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago