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- How did you find PF?
- Kept coming up in the search engine when trying to get an opinion on books or subjects.
Someone in another website told me this is one of the few places where I would get or find serious answers to good questions in Math or Physics.
Since there is a division between "applied" and "pure" mathematics, I feel I'm a bit weird or alone on my journey. I don't like the concept of "Math for the sake of Math".
Yet I'd rather spend my time learning a theory from its foundations, to the point I'm confident of understanding why the applications work. Only then I may rote-memory applications, or at least know their principles to be able to learn them relatively fast. Otherwise, I feel guilty from using a theory, or maybe it's anxiety of not knowing if it's really right (despite all the cues there are to believe the theory is right.) Kudos to those Physics students that go read Rudin[*] on their free time.
I'm on my third year of studying undergraduate Mathematics. Looking forward to read you and maybe make my own threads. I recently got into the fever of buying books (specially if they are cheap like Dover prints), I realized I waste too much time on my computer on top of having to then read digital books; maybe I'll make a thread on books or ask for advice some time in the future.
[*]: I know many don't like Rudin, not even many good Math students like his books. Take it as an idiom for "reading pure math".
Yet I'd rather spend my time learning a theory from its foundations, to the point I'm confident of understanding why the applications work. Only then I may rote-memory applications, or at least know their principles to be able to learn them relatively fast. Otherwise, I feel guilty from using a theory, or maybe it's anxiety of not knowing if it's really right (despite all the cues there are to believe the theory is right.) Kudos to those Physics students that go read Rudin[*] on their free time.
I'm on my third year of studying undergraduate Mathematics. Looking forward to read you and maybe make my own threads. I recently got into the fever of buying books (specially if they are cheap like Dover prints), I realized I waste too much time on my computer on top of having to then read digital books; maybe I'll make a thread on books or ask for advice some time in the future.
[*]: I know many don't like Rudin, not even many good Math students like his books. Take it as an idiom for "reading pure math".
