Twitter: I want to get better at maths, to make up for lost time in college. Who/what should I read?
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It also, I might add, makes "reading" incredibly slow. I'd often be stuck for a few hours trying to prove some lemma or another. Eventually I'd give up and move on (surprisingly often, though, I'd later see the proof very quickly).
The result was that 1 page per day was reasonable progress through a book that I really wanted to understand.
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Sorry to write so much here! One last tweet: I wrote more here: http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics , here: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html , and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666615 But those strategies all need to be secondary. Being stuck & trying stuff is by far the high order bit.
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Really appreciate your sincerity, Michael. I should certainly remember your comments when I'm stuck with something for a lot of time. BTW, I like how you explain stuff, your notes on gauge theories were illuminating.
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Reminds me of the preface in Axler. He says an hour per page is a good rate. Glad I read that freshman year, since it's helped so much
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Oh, that's nice - 1 hour per page is the rough ballpark I keep in mind, too, for in-depth reading-to-understand-well. (I read in several different ways).
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