Timeline for Request for examples: verifying vs understanding proofs
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 10:39 | comment | added | user20948 | I don't completely agree with that quote. The "enlightenment" process in question is quite personal, and the goal is to make (or accelerate) others understand, not to repeat my "enlightenment" process in another individual. Teaching is even more difficult: you need to know how to make a large variety of different students understand. The difficulty is not solely explained by "forgetting one's own dark state". | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 3:31 | comment | added | erfink | @Kai Indeed! I also find it to be an important aspect to grapple with when teaching: we are often too familiar with the given subject and need to actively empathize with out students, to remind ourselves that we too did not always find a subject trivial. | |
| Jun 11, 2020 at 2:06 | comment | added | Kai | I find this same phenomenon sometimes makes it difficult to write papers (I'm a physicist, not a mathematician though), because after having worked on a problem for a long time one loses perspective since after the fact the results may seem almost trivial | |
| S Jun 10, 2020 at 2:46 | history | answered | erfink | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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