math - memorization or understanding

Or, is math just for aspergers cases. I mean, when I did intro algebra it seemed like completing the square, long dividing polynomials, etc. were all just mindless memorization. I'm taking more math above this intro stuff, just to see if it gets any more interesting.

If you really want to know something, it better be true all the time or it will change and become false when you aren't paying attention to it closely.

What can be still last that beyond knowledge divided by light and united by darkness?

Must we finally accept that which can be known will change, and that which changes must be alive, so too are we alive, then true it must be that we must change and accept that change and all change that will come from that which lives and moves. The paradox of life creeps upon you and strikes when your back is turned. Let that which is ignorant be ignored, save that which is alive, for in the moment that we perceive this lie as truth, the paradox of life will be known as belief and every moment thereafter known as faith.