Timeline for Importance of textbooks in health of a sub-discipline
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| Jul 21, 2022 at 9:12 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 12, 2021 at 3:46 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @JohnSmithKyon I'm afraid I do not have any interest in further discussion on this matter, or on the particular details that you have been writing out on MO and MSE. Good luck with your own studies, but please be aware that just because people have not written out details that does not mean they do not know how to do so; moreover, part of maturing as a mathematician is to learn to leave out routine calculations in order to focus on the salient details. | |
| Mar 12, 2021 at 2:40 | comment | added | BCLC | thanks @YemonChoi . but still. it's just some though. i'm not saying any of the correct statements are hard to prove. i just found it hard as a beginner to think of this correct statements. it's like the answers are easy, but the questions were hard. for example, do you know any textbook or reference that has joppy's intuition? | |
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| Dec 5, 2020 at 0:39 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @JohnSmithKyon FWIW: my impression from my own conversations with Matthew is that the level of mathematics which he has in mind is much higher than the level of your questions about complexification, where it seems that most of what you have been working out and pasting on this website is routine calculation that follows logically from the definitions. (I seem to recall that some of this is outlined in a section of the Kostrikin--Manin book that you refer to.) | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 0:36 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Another interesting issue is: When does new mathematics filter down to the college (undergraduate) level. For example, discrete math vs. calculus. | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 0:36 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I have rolled back to Matt's original question. The use of CW status on MO usually serves a different role from on other sites, and I think Matt's original wording should be left to stand. | |
| Dec 5, 2020 at 0:33 | history | rollback | Yemon Choi |
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 1:22 | answer | added | Joe Silverman | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 0:24 | comment | added | BCLC | Matthew Daws and @CarloBeenakker do you know of any textbook that says anything like in the ones I linked in previous comment? | |
| Dec 4, 2020 at 0:23 | history | edited | BCLC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
made the question more explicit; added wheel-reinventing. i mean i guess they might take up the study anyway, but ultimately reinvent the wheel
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| Dec 4, 2020 at 0:17 | comment | added | BCLC | Wish there were a textbook for complexification. I'm fairly certain for each correct claim I make here or here, at least 1 mathematician has already proved it. | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 12:09 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | much of the literature on math text books addresses elementary mathematics, as taught in high school; for some thoughts on the use of text books in advanced mathematics, see mathoverflow.net/q/13089/11260 | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 12:04 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Feb 4, 2020 at 10:53 | comment | added | Matthew Daws | I hope this is suitable here: I guess also it might belong at academia.stackexchange but I felt that the issues involved are really quite specific to Mathematics (a slowly changing, technically deep field which it's not unusual to look at papers published many, many years ago, for example) where "curating knowledge" in the form of textbooks etc. might be rather different to other subjects. I have asked for this to be made community wiki. | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 10:51 | history | asked | Matthew Daws | CC BY-SA 4.0 |