Progress in math comes from understanding the model case, the simplest instance in which you encounter the problem.
Sylvia Serfaty
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’, interview with Siobhan Roberts, Quanta Magazine, February 21, 2017; Full original interview read. Serfaty’s own elaboration on starting with simple computations, distinguished from advice she attributes earlier in the same answer to Tristan Rivière.
- In Mathematics, ‘You Cannot Be Lied To’, interview with Siobhan Roberts, Quanta Magazine, February 21, 2017
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