I am an engineer student from Norway who is not that fascinated with "engineering maths", so I am trying to work through Spivak's Calculus book on my own. I know that there is no "how to" manual for grokking concepts. But I wonder if anyone has used writing as a tool to understand complex concepts. The reason I ask is i bumped into this essay about writing, and I was wondering how that relates to my epic battle with Spivak's book. Any thoughts?
The role of writing in understanding concepts
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2[This thread is somewhat related](http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/53175/should-i-write-out-stuff). – 2011-10-20
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2I always use writing when I want to understand or learn something complicated in math. – 2011-10-20