Timeline for About a decomposition of the ideles and the relation to the Artin map
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| Jan 31, 2017 at 23:33 | comment | added | paul garrett | @AlexanderChervov, I tend to agree that many "classics" are much less useful for learning than as diagnostics, so that if one can understand what's going on, then one is certified as knowing something about the subject. But one does not (perhaps cannot) reach that state by directly studying that source. Many of the "classics" concerning more esoteric general notions about automorphic forms certainly fall into this class. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 19:40 | comment | added | Alexander Chervov | Once I've started to read Serre's Lie groups and algebras the speed was the same 1 page per hour. I was reading it for several weeks and stopped. Actually strange thing happens - several years later it seems to me that Serre's book is more or less obvious... I more or less know all ideas... Despite I have not read any book, just visited some seminars, discussed with people, thought by myself. The same happened with many other books. My conclusion is that reading books is not the good way to learn (at least for me)... My uncle said books are of two sorts: "good" and "thick" :) | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 19:30 | comment | added | GH from MO | Well, I learned class field theory from it, but it took me almost a year to cover it. One full day was enough to read 8 pages, if I recall. Later I read Cassels-Fröhlich, but I still tend to look up things in Weil. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 18:56 | comment | added | Alexander Chervov | Is Weil's book readable ? :) | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 18:34 | history | answered | GH from MO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |