most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-21T03:05:42Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/26967 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26967/how-to-become-a-good-mathematician Pratik Deoghare 2010-06-03T20:47:47Z 2010-06-03T22:50:43Z

<p><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/theorist.html" rel="nofollow">HOW to BECOME a GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICIST by Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize Winner)</a></p> <p>Is there similar "How to become a good mathematician by <strong>__</strong>"?</p> <p><em>Humble Suggestion : Why not build it here?</em></p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26967/how-to-become-a-good-mathematician/26971#26971 Tom Smith 2010-06-03T21:19:13Z 2010-06-03T21:19:13Z

<p>Do good maths. Repeat.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26967/how-to-become-a-good-mathematician/26980#26980 Leonid Positselski 2010-06-03T22:08:12Z 2010-06-03T22:08:12Z

<p>While you are young, do your best to find out the most important mathematical subjects you may be capable of learning reasonably well, and learn them, and as many of them as possible.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26967/how-to-become-a-good-mathematician/26987#26987 Jean-Marie Aubry 2010-06-03T22:50:43Z 2010-06-03T22:50:43Z

<p>There is: How to Solve it, by George Polya (reprinted by Princeton University Press, 2004).</p>