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[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:

> I took Modern Algebra as my first course in "Higher Math." Big mistake. 
> Learning to do proofs this way is a big headache, especially if you have 
> a curmudgeonly teacher!

I don't know what kind of prof you had, but Group Theory tends to need 
proofs that start from the very scratch. You can hardly skip any step or 
make any assumptions. Making proofs at this level is very akin to 
programming in low-level languages like machine language and assembly 
language: you need to go in the little details, and all you have are 
little details put together. Fortunately, other courses (and perhaps other 
parts of the same course) are higher-level than that: I don't need to 
re-prove every little thing. But it's often not very clear in what level 
of detail I have to go. As a really bored student, I constantly tested the 
limits of what I can submit in an exam, and I'd say that they were quite 
tolerant of my terse proofs.

For your learning process, perhaps it has more to do with the teacher 
being curmudgeonly than about the actual topic that you use for learning 
how to prove things.

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