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    Undergrad Why don't math textbooks explain the motivation behind definitions?

    I haven't checked whether the site is crackpot or not... But I experienced that kind arrogance from math pros at the college. (I stop here, because the remaining would be just a rant...) That's sad. Whose responsibility to make it accessible then? I see this attitude on Wikipedia where...
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    Undergrad Why don't math textbooks explain the motivation behind definitions?

    I was always good at maths, just because primary/high school math was simple enough to find concrete examples for the abstract concepts, and that helped me a lot on exams. Since then I tried to grasp more advanced concepts. But I always faced with pure overformalized, overgeneralized stuff...