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I searched this community upon proofs and found some interesting topics. Yet I would like to know how you guys achieved to write your own proofs. What I mean is, my course describes proof as something that comes with experience or learning by doing. I assume that this community has professional experience in mathematics and I would like to model your approach on how to become professional in writing proofs. This might be an unusual question, but I believe that many members of this community would appreciate your advice and experiences. For my part I really would appreciate your advice, since memorizing isn't enough for me to study math. But still when I start proofing theorems I just don't know where to start. Maybe you had the same experience once, yet somehow you managed to accomplish your goal. What did you do? Thank you for your time and support.

-Daniel

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    I do believe that experience is the only way to really learn, yes. Reading the proofs of other people is like being given fish when you really want to be able to catch your own: You will get by fine this time, but if you were ever to be on your own, you'd be in trouble. This tendency of teachers and textbooks to "help too much" is a major flaw in modern mathematics education in most of the world, and there is a beautiful Ted talk by Dan Meyer on that problem and what can be done about it.2012-10-12
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    @Arthur perhaps [this](http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/13/math_class_need/) is the talk you're referring to?2012-10-12
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    But you can bypass all this long years of exprince by reading math reffrences, ask questions, and look for different approchs to the same problem. build a good questioning methodology to study your problems. and the important thing in math is first of all try understand your theorems and read their proofs and that will give you a solide logic and a good methodology in how to do your own.2012-10-12
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    @Epictetus Yes, yes it is. I haven't looked into SE link syntax myself, I appreciate that you took the time to do the work for me.2012-10-12
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    @Arthur: The syntax `this [link](http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/13/math_class_need/)` produces ‘this [link](http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/13/math_class_need/)’.2012-10-12
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    While I think that experience is absolutely essential, I also think that @Arthur greatly underestimates the importance of exposure to others’ arguments, both for picking up new ideas for attacking problems and for learning how (and how not!) to write up an argument to make it understandable.2012-10-12
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    Looking at other people's proofs can be very valuable if you know how to make your own. However, I still firmly believe that if you are not used to making your own proofs, there will only be a minimal value in it.2012-10-12
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    @Arthur: And I think that at least for the vast majority of students you’re wrong. You might as well try to write a novel without ever having read one.2012-10-12

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