Recent content by DissenterK

I empathize with you when you write "...I'll get lost in confusion or some course-material will be harder to understand..." and I have those same feelings myself. I need to give your response some thought, in particular, because of the last sentence in your second paragraph. I'll respond later...

You make the same suggestion my friend makes but you add no justification for it. Why not make the assumption that the mathematical tool-set at your disposal is valid, being that you're, say, a physicist? Why not leave the proofs to the students of mathematics? I stress this point even further...

To what extent, if any, is an understanding of mathematical proofs required for a scientist? I can empathize with a need for an understanding of the general machinery of the tools you are using (understanding, for example, how it is the chain rule came about, ie, how it was derived) but, using...