To those of you who have learned from math textbooks: If you could go back in time, what do you wish you could tell your younger self about how to read them more effectively?
"At least in my own case, understanding mathematics doesn't come from reading or even listening. It comes from rethinking what I see or hear. I must redo the mathematics in the context of my particular background." ~ Stephen Smale
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"I don’t really learn anything properly unless I’ve gone through a sort of personal process of rediscovery." ~ Timothy Gowers
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"It seems to me then, in repeating a reasoning learned, that I could have invented it. This is often only an illusion; but even then, even if I am not so gifted as to create it by myself, I myself reinvent it in so far as I repeat it." ~ Henri Poincaré
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