Twitter: I want to get better at maths, to make up for lost time in college. Who/what should I read?
Apart from Ramanujan, mathematical history affords no example of a major contributor whose formative experience included only glancing exposure to the work of his great predecessors. What matters most, though, is understanding their aesthetics and heuristics, not their results.
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Among the people who would surely take issue with your suggestion that reading the masters should constitute a relatively minor part of a proper mathematical education are Lagrange, Eisenstein, Dirichlet, Abel, and Galois.
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