puzzling out the proofs for concepts so utterly fundamental to math by myself that it’s like if Genesis 1:3 was And God said, ‘Let there be integer,’ and there was integer

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    2 months ago

    Only if it’s the math major version of the course at elite institutions, at least in the US

    Huh? Wow, I guess the west is this barbarous. Seriously, those topics were covered in the first semester in my case, with the primary textbook also taking a topological approach (without introducing topology explicitly - just working with the metric notion of open sets, though).

    Commercialised access to higher education has been a scourge upon your education, or seems.