It isn’t that it’s locked away. It’s just that it’s much, much easier to learn some skills with a teacher than on your own.
Imagine, e.g. trying to learn to play piano without a teacher. You could technically maybe do it but it would be 100x harder and you’d end up with a bunch of bad habits. But once you have the basics down you can learn new music on your own.
Proof-based mathematics is similar. There’s just a lot of technical, non-obvious stuff that you have to learn before you go off on your own.
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It isn’t that it’s locked away. It’s just that it’s much, much easier to learn some skills with a teacher than on your own.
Imagine, e.g. trying to learn to play piano without a teacher. You could technically maybe do it but it would be 100x harder and you’d end up with a bunch of bad habits. But once you have the basics down you can learn new music on your own.
Proof-based mathematics is similar. There’s just a lot of technical, non-obvious stuff that you have to learn before you go off on your own.