Timeline for Finding information about the basics of an advanced math topic
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 14:45 | history | edited | Tadashi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2012 at 20:26 | history | undeleted | Andrei Smolensky | ||
| Jul 29, 2012 at 20:26 | history | deleted | Andrei Smolensky | ||
| Oct 22, 2011 at 20:48 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 19:34 | history | edited | Thierry Zell | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed the title as well as the terrible tag
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| Oct 22, 2011 at 18:54 | answer | added | Will Jagy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 18:05 | comment | added | Julien Puydt | I would look at the author's other articles (as already mentioned by Pieter Naaijkens), and take the intersection of their references (my insightful addition ;-) ). | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 17:02 | comment | added | Brad Hannigan-Daley | It's often worth searching in the arxiv to see if someone has written a relevant expository article. You could also try starting up a learning seminar and convincing other people to give talks in it :) | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 15:31 | comment | added | Thomas Kahle | Impronving your google skills seems to be one way to go. Try different combinations and using the "-" prefix to unmatch words. In your case "cluster" often refers to huge EU research grants, so you may try to include "-EU" in your search. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 15:04 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | When I googled the phrase "cluster presentations of reflection groups" (without quotes), I found on the first page of results some slides by Nathan Reading on "cluster algebras and infinite associahedra", which is at least math-y sounding and suggestive of some keywords to follow up on, for example "Coxeter group". But in general, it can be exquisitely difficult to learn about advanced topics in math efficiently without serious mathematical training. I find that Wikipedia can be a big help when first setting out. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:58 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Andrei, that's quite disappointing to learn. I find random luck to be a great way to stumble onto new things I like and want to learn about. Anyway, posting a question on math.stackexchange.com or MO seems like a reasonable thing to do when you have some vague idea of something you want to learn more about. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:46 | history | edited | Andrei Smolensky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:46 | comment | added | Andrei Smolensky | @Igor Rivin - I was interested in the words "reflection groups", plus this was a talk at general algebra seminar. And finally it turned out to be very clear and somewhat connected with the area of my interest. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:41 | comment | added | Andrei Smolensky | @Deane Yang - well, the library in SPbSU (Russia) doesn't allow to "wander through" --- you can only ask for specific book, but that's all. And it also doesn't have any new books and journals. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:37 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | Why would you be interested in "Cluster presentations of reflection groups" if you don't know what the words mean? Surely whereever you are, there must be some talks of which you can understand the title, at least? | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:25 | comment | added | Pieter Naaijkens | In the case of a seminar you can try to look up some articles by the speaker and see if you can find any useful references. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:25 | comment | added | Deane Yang | In the old days, before the internet, I used to wander through the math library glancing at random math books that seemed interesting. This gave me a sense of where everything was. I would also browse through newly arrived journals and sometimes even bound volumes of old ones. This gave me a sense of what was out there and what things were called. Then if I wanted to learn something specific, I had some sense of which part of the library to look in and I would just look through the books or journals I suspected were relevant. And do this while you're young. You won't have the time later. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 14:16 | history | asked | Andrei Smolensky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |