I'm doing a MSc in mathematics. I tried to read that book once and I thought it was terrible. One of the few books I dropped before finishing it and also the re

I'm doing a MSc in mathematics. I tried to read that book once and I thought it was terrible. One of the few books I dropped before finishing it and also the reason why I have been reluctant to pick up other Murakami books. With respect to your phenomena of leveling up your mathematical maturity without doing mathematics, that has happened to me a few times and I would say yoga and psychadelics are the primary source of inspiration. Of course you need to do a lot of reading and studying (or if you have courses then you can sit back and have them feed it to you). One thing is making the information known and the other is to understand it, this is where the things that can spark random enlightenments come in.