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Andrew Wiles quote: "I really think it's bad to have too good a memory if you want to be a mathematician. You need a slightly bad memory because you need to forget the way you approached [a problem] the previous time because it's a bit like evolution, DNA. You need to make a little mistake in the way you did it before so that you do something slightly different and then that's what actually enables you to get round [the problem]."<ref>https://plus.maths.org/content/andrew-wiles-what-does-if-feel-do-maths</ref>
 
Andrew Wiles quote: "I really think it's bad to have too good a memory if you want to be a mathematician. You need a slightly bad memory because you need to forget the way you approached [a problem] the previous time because it's a bit like evolution, DNA. You need to make a little mistake in the way you did it before so that you do something slightly different and then that's what actually enables you to get round [the problem]."<ref>https://plus.maths.org/content/andrew-wiles-what-does-if-feel-do-maths</ref>
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Richard Borchers says similar things in a youtube interview with curt jaimungal.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 02:43, 23 July 2021

forgetting something is not always bad. by forgetting, you allow yourself to look at the same thing with "fresh eyes".

stuff to add to this page:

  • some stuff from the SuperMemo wikis
  • keywords: functional fixedness, Einstellung effect

Andrew Wiles quote: "I really think it's bad to have too good a memory if you want to be a mathematician. You need a slightly bad memory because you need to forget the way you approached [a problem] the previous time because it's a bit like evolution, DNA. You need to make a little mistake in the way you did it before so that you do something slightly different and then that's what actually enables you to get round [the problem]."[1]

Richard Borchers says similar things in a youtube interview with curt jaimungal.

See also

References

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