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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"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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"The mathematical literature is useful in that it provides clues, and one can often use these clues to put together a cogent picture. When I have reorganized the mathematics in my own terms, then I feel an understanding, not before." ~ Stephen Smale
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