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>Landau said, in the biography, “Don’t waste your time on mathematicians and lectures and so on — instead, find a book with the largest number of solved exercis
by Isamu 8y ago
>Landau said, in the biography, “Don’t waste your time on mathematicians and lectures and so on — instead, find a book with the largest number of solved exercises and go through them all. That’s how you learn mathematics.”
Posting this because of a recent HN discussion touching on this. It really resonates with me because I feel that was key when I was learning calculus. I would like to see a lot more books with solutions.
The struggle you go through trying to understand your mistakes and correcting yourself is really the crux of learning.
- TheTrotters 8y agoI really wish someone would create a series of problem sets based on math.stackexchange. Many problems have multiple solutions and useful discussion in comments as well. The challenge is to curate their content. Ideally such problem sets would accompany a specific textbook. It’s seems like such a simple idea that somebody should have done it already but I wasn’t able to find anything.
- iaw 8y agoSerious question: Any idea what the licensing for such an endeavor would look like? My guess would be Stack Exchange 'owns' the content but I don't have time atm to read their ToS.
- gowld 8y agoIf your question is serious, why can't you be bothered to visit the site and look, instead of waiting for someone to read it to you?