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Title text: Also the nice books give you fifty problems to establish understanding while the scary books give you two trick questions.

Votey

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Professor, why are mathematicians so certain that everything should reduce to simple axioms? Why can't it be more complex?

If you look at math textbooks, the broad introductory texts are all large and full of color and pictures.

It's an observed fact

As you advance in your mathematical career, the books become shorter, grayer, and with fewer words and more symbols:

Eigen-fractal recursive quasi-dimensional anti-manifold pedipulation techniques no help fuck you

Let's learn algebra!

Advanced calculus

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Profundity of mathematics

This suggests that the very deepest math - the book of the universe -will be an infinitesimally small piece of paper, overwritten with a single infinitesimally small symbol.

What do you think the symbol means?

"this universe left as an exercise for the reader."

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