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I have tried to give the information in a more laymen language to make people understand it more easily, so that a person doesn't get overwhelmed with too many big words. |
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Wikipedia provides one of the more prominent resources on the Web for factual information about contemporary mathematics, with over 20,000 articles on mathematical topics. It is natural that many readers use Wikipedia for the purpose of self-study in mathematics and its applications. Some readers will be simultaneously studying mathematics in a more formal way, while others will rely on Wikipedia alone. There are certain points that need to be borne (kept) in mind by anyone using Wikipedia for mathematical self-study, in order to make the best use of what is here, perhaps in conjunction with other resources.
==General points==
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==Particular points==
Studying mathematics from a reference source is not ideal. Unless you consult Wikipedia to answer a specific question, it is not reasonable to expect instant results. If you are a student who is studying for school curriculum, you should give first priority to the textbooks. try to learn from them first. but if you find any concept or any problem hard to understand or solve respectively, then you can jump to wikipedia for that particular topic. You can get good knowledge about that Concept as the content present on wikipedia is a cumulative contribution of a lot of people. you can also learn about the topics that are related to that particular concept with the help of those hyperlinks. so you should consider wikipedia as a help to understand certain things but not the whole subject. and when it comes to solving a particular problem it is not always true that you will find it on wikipedia, so you can have other tools in hand to rely on also.
Mathematics textbooks are conventionally built up carefully, one chapter at a time, explaining what mathematicians would call the ''prerequisites'' before moving to a new topic. For example, you may think you can study Chapter 10 of a book before Chapter 9, but reading a few pages may then show you that you are wrong. Because Wikipedia's pages are not ordered in the same way, it may be less clear ''what'' the prerequisites are, and ''where'' to find them, if you are struggling with a new concept.
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