Timeline for Daunting papers/books and how to finally read them
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Feb 3 at 8:56 | comment | added | Kphysics | Razborov and Rudich, I just looked. The kind of paper where hand-waving arguments are dressed with impeccable technical proofs to arrive at a "rigorous" result which depends on a series of conjectures about NP. Haha, avoid, indeed. In fact, a "daunting" paper will often turn out to be something like this, so kudos to @Timothy Chow for "Do everything in your power to not read the paper." | |
Feb 2 at 22:48 | comment | added | Daniel Asimov | I believe what Timothy Chow writes, only I think there is also a very important gray area between a) (wisely) avoiding reading certain papers that are Not Appropriate to you at the moment for whatever reasons and b) happily plowing ahead with a good paper for this person at this moment: This gray area consists of the papers that lie outside your current comfort zone, yet not so far outside that you would immediately reject reading them. I once spent all summer (1971) reading "Groups of homotopy spheres" — well outside my comfort zone at the time — and never looked back. | |
Feb 2 at 22:31 | comment | added | Akira | I feel yours answer are practically useful and in the spirit of research in action. | |
S Feb 2 at 2:37 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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