“How not to solve it”: I really wanted to like Polya’s classic how-to-math book, but like @DRMacIver I got little/nothing out of it.
Why hasn’t anyone written anything better? (Is there something better I don’t know about?)https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1063841518656602118 …
Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver
I suspect the goal here is very close to self-contradictory; distilling general strategies for doing mathematical research is essentially the same thing as doing mathematical research, so not really a *shortcut* to the latter.
9:43 AM - 17 Nov 2018
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