Why do I love deriving my formulas?
Because memorization is a drag and deriving makes you feel (and sound) smarter than you actually are.
But seriously, it’s much like going back in time—a history lesson of sorts. It is the process of encapsulating entire lifetimes’ worth of work through years, decades, or even centuries of continued knowledge-building, and jotting it all down in pen step-by-step… Tracing the thoughts of the Giants of scientific past and present, connecting their ideas and linking otherwise irreconcilable segments in history, making, after it all, a beautiful work of subtle brevity and elegance. Symbolic, literally and figuratively. Pretty on paper, definitely.
Quick post. Back to exam preparations!
