Comment by didibus
> Leetcode mostly relies on memorizing patterns
Math is like that as well though. It's about learning all the prior axioms, laws, knowing allowed simplifications, and so on.
> Leetcode mostly relies on memorizing patterns
Math is like that as well though. It's about learning all the prior axioms, laws, knowing allowed simplifications, and so on.
In math, you usually need to prove said simplifications. So just memorizing is not enough. As you get more advanced, you then start swapping out axioms.
In the same way that writing and performing a new song is "just memorizing prior patterns and law"
or that writing a new book is the same.
I.e. it's not about that. Like sure it helps to have a base set of shared language, knowledge, and symbols, but math is so much more than just that.