Keith Devlin Quotes

Sure, Some [teachers] Could Give The Standard Limit Definitions, But They [the Students] Clearly Did Not Understand The Definitions - And It Would Be A Remarkable Student Who Did, Since It Took Mathematicians A Couple Of Thousand Years To Sort Out The Notion Of A Limit, And I Think Most Of Us Who Call Ourselves Professional Mathematicians Really Only Understand It When We Start To Teach The Stuff, Either In Graduate School Or Beyond.

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