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You don’t have to read 100% of every single book. Even just going through the first few chapters of SICP (or other similarly dense, more theoretical text) would
by GuiA 7y ago
You don’t have to read 100% of every single book. Even just going through the first few chapters of SICP (or other similarly dense, more theoretical text) would most likely be beneficial to those who have never worked through the material before.
- yesenadam 7y agoAlso, by reading the classics/greats, you get the style of their thinking—something missed in a summary of the book, or someone else's re-presentation of it. In training, what you are taught is the important thing; but education is in being exposed to ways of thinking characteristic of a particular field, and the styles of thinking of particular teachers/writers. The constant recommendation of successful scientists is to "Go to the masters, not the commentators." It is the master who, by definition, has the right style, and often the commentators give the results without the essence—style! — Richard Hamming, Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics, Prologue