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Yes, learn the math and see the beauty in full.
That's valid for popular science books. For textbooks on physics the opposite is true: The more formulae the author offers, the more steps are made explicit in a derivation, for the student the more simple it is to follow and understand the argument ;-).houlahound said:Didnt Hawking famously say - every equation he puts in a book takes X amount of sales off.
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houlahound said:Yes, learn the math and see the beauty in full.
houlahound said:Define understand and how you know you understand something.