Revision as of 13:16, 18 February 2014 edit 216.27.77.136 (talk) Undid revision 593609120 by 41.48.223.235 (talk) vandalism ← Previous edit		Revision as of 08:09, 13 March 2014 edit undo Yaris678 (talk \| contribs) Administrators 12,470 edits →Omissions from the encyclopedia: Exercises are done, rather than solved. I would say "completing", but you can learn without getting to the end! Next edit →
Line 23: ==Omissions from the encyclopedia== Mathematics is something that is ''done'' rather than ''read''. A mathematics textbook will contain many [[exercise (mathematics)\|exercise]]s, and ~~solving~~doing them is an essential part of learning mathematics. Wikipedia does not include exercises; by design, Wikipedia is an encyclopedic reference, [[WP:NOTTEXTBOOK\|not a textbook]]. When it comes to more advanced topics, mathematics is developed, and largely hangs together, by means of the large body of quite formal ''[[Mathematical proof\|proofs]]'' that exist in the mathematical literature. Wikipedia does not attempt to condense all of these proofs into encyclopedic form, for reasons that are discussed at length in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Proofs\|another essay]]. Wikipedia assembles the facts uncovered by mathematical investigation, and the definitions underlying the abstract theories. In common with other mathematical encyclopedias, it omits most proofs.

Help:Using Wikipedia for mathematics self-study: Difference between revisions