Math books be like this. Stared at this a long time before I realized it was just basically saying that the product of a matrix with its inverse is the identity. Lol why

@mandlebro I've been doing math my whole life. I'm halve decent, invented some stuff, learned some really advanced concepts. But the way math is worded has always been the biggest thing that holds me back. I spend more time trying to figure out what they are saying than actually learning concepts (which is usually easy by comparison.

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@freemo Reading math as basically all I do at this point in my PhD and I still find myself going at a rate of about an hour a page for some work, sometimes due to its genuine density, and sometimes due to the quality of the exposition. It's exhausting. Math, by its very nature, is built out of definitions and theorems, including these necessary pieces in your work is hard enough, communicating the intuition and ideas on top of that is something very few people can do effectively.

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