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?
"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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"It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils." ~ Niels Henrik Abel
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"Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention, which, in my opinion, are more interesting than the inventions themselves." ~ Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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