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How do you revise material that you already half-know, without getting bored and demotivated?

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Determinant of a non-square matrix

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Is Pythagoras the only relation to hold between $\cos$ and $\sin$?

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What recent programmes to alter highly-entrenched mathematical terminology have succeeded, and under what conditions do they tend to succeed or fail?

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Struggling with “technique-based” mathematics, can people relate to this? And what, if anything, can be done about it?

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Is $\mathbb{N}$ impossible to pin down?

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I don't get the relationship between differentials, differential forms, and exterior derivatives.

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Cross product in higher dimensions

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Rotated $\ltimes$ symbol

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Smallest Subset of $\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ Closed under Typical Operations

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properties that real numbers hold but complex numbers does not

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How do you revise material that you already half-know, without getting bored and demotivated?

Determinant of a non-square matrix

Is Pythagoras the only relation to hold between $\cos$ and $\sin$?

What recent programmes to alter highly-entrenched mathematical terminology have succeeded, and under what conditions do they tend to succeed or fail?

Struggling with “technique-based” mathematics, can people relate to this? And what, if anything, can be done about it?

Is $\mathbb{N}$ impossible to pin down?

I don't get the relationship between differentials, differential forms, and exterior derivatives.

Cross product in higher dimensions

Rotated $\ltimes$ symbol

Smallest Subset of $\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ Closed under Typical Operations