there's thinking mathematically and then there's being able to fluently read math articles on wikipedia as if they're easier than ernest hemingway. I can do the former and the latter I will insist until my grave is impossible for me.
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That's probably why math writing largely makes me feel dyslexic, while programming came naturally. And why I hate Haskell and find it painful to read even though I understand the "hard" concepts behind it just fine—it's the form of it I can't deal with, not the ideas.