Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Florensky on learning mathematics

In mathematics try not just to memorise what to do and how but take it in gradually, bit by bit, as though it were a new piece of music. Mathematics should not be a burden laid on you from without, but a habit of thought.
(From Avril Pyman's biography, p. 160.)

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