Timeline for What is a recommended strategy on exercises in a mathematical textbook at graduate level?
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| Oct 8, 2019 at 6:41 | comment | added | A Simple Algorithm | Hmm what's the unconventional part here? For decades they've been trying to get us to turn our backs on the math nerds and focus all our effort on teaching math to the other students. However I certainly do agree people shouldn't put all their efforts into learning from one book. | |
| Oct 6, 2019 at 22:15 | comment | added | paul garrett | Yes, very good. The artificial (not canonical) choices of "logical ordering", as well as make-work exercises, make a certain tradition's picture of mathematics fairly ridiculous. E.g., imagine it were not a "school subject" at all, but a thing we'd do "in real life". As with many other "real life things", there is no intrinsic logical order, and, instead, besides, a larger picture is the most important thing! | |
| Oct 6, 2019 at 22:02 | comment | added | JeremyC | This is really good advice for graduate students. You would not be studying it if it were not hard. You cannot expect to deal with all the exercises in the order given in the textbook because that order probably does not relate to your interest in and developing study of the subject. you cannot hope to understand the subject on a single read through of the book. You have to work your mind all round the subject. Eventually you will be able to do all the exercises, but by then you probably will not need to. | |
| Oct 6, 2019 at 20:37 | history | edited | Elizabeth Henning | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2019 at 20:32 | history | answered | Elizabeth Henning | CC BY-SA 4.0 |