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What are some ways that one can progress from stage 2 to stage 3 of the rigor stages that Terry Tao has described?

Terry Tao describes 3 stages of one's mathematics education on his web blog. 1: Pre-rigorous 2: Rigorous 3. Post-rigorous I know how one can progress from stage 1 to stage 2 (this simply can be done ...
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Why do the stages of rigorousness have specific timestamps?

This is a reduced quote from There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs of Terrence Tao (emphasis mine): The “pre-rigorous” stage, in which mathematics is taught in an informal, ...
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