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That's mostly because proofs are too long to write out easily in the back of a textbook, imo. Your best bet here is to learn the proofs of the theorems proved in the book first - they're usually much harder to come up with at first glance than the problems one bases on them. Or, if you're using a commonly used textbook, you can usually find people's own proofs online. Sourcing an easy to grok and easy to check proof is a very good skill to build in any case, it minimizes wheel reinvention at the neural level.


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