>>11861700There is nothing wrong with rote memorization, /sci/ dimwits think you should deduce and derive the entire sum of human knowledge from start for some reason instead of capitalizing on thousands of years of work.
Noone gives a shit if you can derivate a perimeter from an area, it will impress your fellow math autists but that's it.
Mathematics are a bunch of tools to do stuff, not an end in itself.
