Timeline for Is solving all of the exercises in a textbook a good idea? [closed]
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 19:53 | comment | added | gnasher729 | The Art of Computer Programming has a good number of unsolved research problems among its exercises. Fermat's Last Theorem was among them, but it was downgraded because it's not unsolved anymore. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 8:30 | comment | added | mlk | There is also the question of what you count as solving. If you are doing it only for yourself anyway, there are some shortcuts you can take. Say you are looking at the hundredth integral in a long list in some book and you immediately see a working substitution which reduces it to something you know how to integrate, without even picking up the pen. Then you should count it as solved and move on to the next, in the hope of finding something more interesting. Sure, you may not have inserted the boundary values, but after a hundred integrals, this part is purely mechanical anyway. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 7:37 | vote | accept | Heptapod | ||
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 6:26 | answer | added | user14155 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 5:20 | answer | added | Supriyo | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 4:20 | comment | added | Nick T | At some point, the exercises help more with memorizing vs conceptualizing. I've forgotten almost all of my integral tables, but I know how integration works and can massage an equation into something I can look up. | |
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| Aug 20, 2017 at 23:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 20, 2017 at 22:32 | comment | added | astronat supports the strike | If it's helping you learn and not taking up too much time, then I don't see any negatives. | |
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