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haha true, I envy people that just sit down read a book/chapter/article/blog linearly and then comes enlightened, I can't, I need to first Skim almost 90% of th
by criloz2 9y ago
haha true, I envy people that just sit down read a book/chapter/article/blog linearly and then comes enlightened, I can't, I need to first Skim almost 90% of the material, and then start again from the bottom, reading the last part and trying to figure out how the first part is connected or are important for understand what is written.
I think that people that read it linearly don't miss important info, but I just can't
- catnaroek 9y agoNobody is born knowing how to read effectively. It is a matter of practice and discipline.
- heavenlyblue 9y agoHave you actually read any of the papers? While I tend to agree with you in an ideal situation where you may assume the writer is <probably> good - that is usually not the case with real-life papers. It's not even the writing per se - it's the structure, or omissions instead. I would rather skim first to find which parts I may not be able to grasp right away and to find out if there's any point spending time on this, rather than go on and read the pieces from the citation list.
- catnaroek 9y ago> Have you actually read any of the [emphasis mine] papers? What specific papers are you talking about? TFA doesn't contain a single occurrence of the word “paper”. On the other hand, it contains several occurrences of the word “book”. And, most importantly, it is obviously written for newcomers to mathematics, who for obvious reasons will spend more time reading carefully written books rather than papers written in a rush.