Timeline for Pacing for learning new material
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| Feb 19, 2014 at 22:53 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @AndrewL sometimes the masters really are a lot more readable than the students. For example, I think Hormander is really a master of exposition, and stays close to the essential. Later reformulations layer on more abstraction than needed, and can obscure the ideas. | |
| Apr 23, 2010 at 16:40 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | "Read the masters." Indeed good advice,but not for the beginners.That's the key.Read the STUDENTS until you've learned enough to be able to read the masters.Remember,the reason the masters are unreadable isn't because they're inhumanly brilliant. It's because the concepts are only in the formative stages and the masters themselves aren't clear yet what the best way to lay it out is,they're groping for the ideas.But that's why reading the masters is so enlightening-they are sources of IDEAS. And they're great models of how math is actually done in the real world. | |
| Nov 8, 2009 at 18:22 | comment | added | Charles Rezk | And don't be afraid to take a look at the original papers on a topic. Sometimes they are unreadable, of course, but sometimes they are very readable, with a wealth of motivation that tends to get left out more efficient textbook accounts. | |
| Nov 8, 2009 at 18:00 | comment | added | Thomas Riepe | "Never stick to ... just two single reference.": Yes and never forget that some standart texts are really bad written. E.g. I once spent weeks in vain to understand an important standard article of a very well known specialist, then again with a seemingly explaining article by other famous specialists - only then I found out that both are regarded by all as completely unreadable. Maybe someone should invent for such texts a math version of the former "rusty electron"-award in computer science... | |
| Nov 8, 2009 at 16:02 | vote | accept | Michael Hoffman | ||
| Nov 8, 2009 at 15:45 | history | answered | Jose Capco | CC BY-SA 2.5 |