“They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.”

— Richard Hamming

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: Mathematics, being very different from the natural languages, has its corresponding patterns of thought. Learning these patterns is much more important than any particular result... They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.

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American mathematician and information theorist 1915–1998

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