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billswift comments on Discuss: How to learn math? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: billswift 12 October 2010 12:04:06AM *  1 point [-]

Most people who are interested in math for itself already know enough that they aren't going to be too interested in this sort of post. For the majority who learn math for other ends, engineering, computer science, physics, etc, browsing will help them orient themselves, and to find out what interrelationships there are between different fields and techniques. And what they are missing when they discover they need background that they don't have for a book they are working through.