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 Like an old religious text it's written entirely in the form of questions and answers. Because to learn this material is not to synthesize new ideas but rather to correctly give the expected responses for each question. 

And it's possible, that with a curious mind, (like the one that my father was gifted with you might ultimately gain some insight into the mathematics behind those questions and answers through a kind of bulk familiarity with the subject, but this was never the intent. 2/