alt Hacker News> Leetcode mostly relies on memorizing patterns
Math is like that as well though. It's about learning all the prior axioms, laws, knowing allowed simplifications, and so on.
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catlifeonmars • today at 3:42 AM
In math, you usually need to prove said simplifications. So just memorizing is not enough. As you get more advanced, you then start swapping out axioms.
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In the same way that writing and performing a new song is "just memorizing prior patterns and law"
or that writing a new book is the same.
I.e. it's not about that. Like sure it helps to have a base set of shared language, knowledge, and symbols, but math is so much more than just that.