31 Aug
2011
31 Aug
'11
5:14 p.m.
On 30/08/2011 09:49 PM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
Knuth admitted that he had learnt a lot while teaching things he already knew. So did Feynman. And Landau.
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, explaining something to somebody else forces you to order your thoughts and think through the knowledge you already have, so that you can present it to somebody else in something resembling a coherant form. It's not unusual for this process to clarify your own knowledge. At least, that's *my* excuse for constantly talking to myself... >_>