It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics. (Richard Hamming)

It is easy to measure your mastery of the results via a conventional examination; it is less easy to measure your mastery of doing mathematics.

Richard Hamming

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