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To add one more thing: the "thing" that has helped me most lately isn't a specific book or video or anything, but rather simply committing to spending 1 hour ev

To add one more thing: the "thing" that has helped me most lately isn't a specific book or video or anything, but rather simply committing to spending 1 hour every day on math. I even set up a Google Calendar task to remind me of this every. single. day. And so far this year I haven't missed a day yet. Now what constitutes that hour can vary. It can be watching math videos, it can be solving problems on paper, and I might even let myself count futzing around with numerical computing stuff or something at some point. In practice so far it's basically always either watching videos, reading books, or doing exercises (from books). I won't claim that everybody must do this, or that you need to commit 1 hour every day. Maybe 30 minutes would be fine. Or maybe some people who can spare the time would be well served to commit 2 hours a day. Who knows? But having some kind of routine strikes me as something that most people would probably find valuable.

empyrrhicist 4y ago
Yeah, I've been doing the same thing, but with the rule that I have to do "a math problem". Right now I'm going through a stochastic processes book a bit at a time that way and really enjoying it.
- jay3ss 4y ago
  In my experience, nothing beats solving problems. Even if you get help via solution manuals. I went from being a B/A student to top of my classes (engineering) by solving many problems. I would do my homework and then go back before exams and redo the homework twice for a total of solving the problems 3 times. Never failed me. I actually managed to get a perfect score from a professor who wrote notoriously difficult exams where a 50% to 60% was curved to be a B
  - empyrrhicist 4y ago
    Yep, a book with proofs and worked exercises is great for this because you can try to do the proof and then look at the solution to see if you got it reasonably correct. In my case the book covers a lot of stuff that I passively "know", but working problems has helped get be back to an active understanding.
    - debanjan16 4y ago
      Can you mention some books of this type?
      - empyrrhicist 4y ago
        The one I'm enjoying right now is Introduction to Stochastic Processes by Erhan Cinlar.
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empyrrhicist 4y ago

Yeah, I've been doing the same thing, but with the rule that I have to do "a math problem". Right now I'm going through a stochastic processes book a bit at a time that way and really enjoying it.

jay3ss 4y ago
In my experience, nothing beats solving problems. Even if you get help via solution manuals. I went from being a B/A student to top of my classes (engineering) by solving many problems. I would do my homework and then go back before exams and redo the homework twice for a total of solving the problems 3 times. Never failed me. I actually managed to get a perfect score from a professor who wrote notoriously difficult exams where a 50% to 60% was curved to be a B
- empyrrhicist 4y ago
  Yep, a book with proofs and worked exercises is great for this because you can try to do the proof and then look at the solution to see if you got it reasonably correct. In my case the book covers a lot of stuff that I passively "know", but working problems has helped get be back to an active understanding.
  - debanjan16 4y ago
    Can you mention some books of this type?
    - empyrrhicist 4y ago
      The one I'm enjoying right now is Introduction to Stochastic Processes by Erhan Cinlar.
- dev_0 4y ago
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