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?
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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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"In mathematics, in my view, the first thing to know is that one doesn’t become a mathematician by learning; one becomes a mathematician by doing mathematics." ~ Alain Connes
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