Timeline for How to study a math text [closed]
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 19:10 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @Dedalus : math.SE = math.stackexchange.com | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 19:05 | comment | added | Dedalus | Noah: math.SE? What's that? | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 17:33 | history | closed |
Andrew Stacey Steve Huntsman Noah Snyder Andy Putman Harry Gindi |
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 17:15 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Voted to close because this is not a question about research level math and is thus more appropriate for math.SE | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 17:10 | answer | added | Marin F. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:51 | answer | added | Charles Matthews | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:40 | comment | added | Dror Speiser | Google "SQ3R". Write solutions to exercises. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:37 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | @Thierry: how old-fashioned! Keep an iPad handy! Then: Next year (or next week) you won't have to wonder where you put that sheet of paper with your notes on it... (But I must admit that I personally am so old that I do it your old-fashioned way.) | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:34 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | The automatically-generated "Related" items at the side now include these... mathoverflow.net/questions/27221/… mathoverflow.net/questions/12734/learning-speed-in-math | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:34 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | The approach will vary from person to person, and the level at which you're working. However, I think there is one close-to-universal rule: if you're serious about what you're reading, you keep a pencil and notepad handy. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:31 | comment | added | Adam | Personally I often find that I think I completely understand a proof, only to discover that this is not the case if I try to replicate it without notes. For that reason, I find it is often a good idea to sometimes test my understanding by writing down what I've learnt in my own words. Note this is different from just memorizing and reciting theorems/proofs though! | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:21 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | In general, the way of doing this varies a lot from one person to another. You can ask others how they do it, but in the end you will have to find the way that works best for you. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 16:15 | comment | added | Andy Putman | Your profile says that you are an undergraduate, and this question suggests that you are just starting to learn math on your own without a teacher (an important step!) . Because of this, I think you might get more useful responses if you posted this question to math.stackexchange.com instead of here. | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 15:46 | history | edited | Charles Matthews | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 15:42 | history | edited | Dylan Wilson |
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| Aug 13, 2010 at 15:39 | history | asked | Dedalus | CC BY-SA 2.5 |