Timeline for How much reading do you do before you attack a problem?
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Somatic Custard | Using the nuanced insight of @DeaneYang, we can simplify many known results: Let $p$ be a prime. Is there an expression $p = a^2 + b^2$ as a sum of squares? It depends. QED | |
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| Jul 23, 2010 at 16:29 | comment | added | DoubleJay | The drift of the responses so far is a lot more "dive in head first, then read while you work" than I expected. That's actually really nice to know - I've been reading myself to death on a problem, and still feeling like I'm missing out on a vast amount of important facts. You guys have inspired me to get my hands dirty! | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 16:13 | answer | added | Peter Shor | timeline score: 39 | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 13:37 | history | edited | Andrey Rekalo |
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| Jul 23, 2010 at 8:56 | answer | added | Yiftach Barnea | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 5:37 | answer | added | Allen Knutson | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 4:21 | answer | added | O.R. | timeline score: 44 | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 4:09 | comment | added | Deane Yang | The only possible answer I can conceive of for this question is: it depends. | |
| Jul 23, 2010 at 1:21 | history | asked | DoubleJay | CC BY-SA 2.5 |