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The oddity is that I could read proofs for both subjects: the reasoning made sense. But I couldn't develop a proof.
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I stopped handwriting math to turn in my freshman year of college, LaTex was just too good looking.
that seems like a ton of work, especially for problem sets
Nowadays I mostly use markdown with inline latex as formatting with latex can be a pain.
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I stopped handwriting math to turn in my freshman year of college, LaTex was just too good looking.
Extra fine Japanese fountain pens are the solution to all your problems.
My biggest problems as a math major at the undergraduate level were proofs. I could muddle my way through abstract algebra proofs but real analysis just didn't click. The oddity is that I could read proofs for both subjects: the reasoning made sense. But I couldn't develop a proof.
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I stopped handwriting math to turn in my freshman year of college, LaTex was just too good looking.
that seems like a ton of work, especially for problem sets
Bad handwriting. At age 40 I started taking a masters in stats and had situations where I had exponents on exponents. This lead me to buy a higher resolution tablet for reading pdf's with tiny math. I also bought a finer point pen and this helped me improve my handwriting a lot . Closing loops on "o's" or backtracing the upward line of a cursive "t" to not make a loop. With the finer point, I was able to see my impre…
My biggest problems as a math major at the undergraduate level were proofs. I could muddle my way through abstract algebra proofs but real analysis just didn't click. The oddity is that I could read proofs for both subjects: the reasoning made sense. But I couldn't develop a proof.