Recent content by Garvett

Ah, yes, I should clarify that as well. Essentially many professors just write out their lectures by hand, then scan them, and allow to be distributed, so there is something in it quite unusual.

Essentially I meant the notes that professors hand out; as they are called in the reply below yours, those are ”professors’ manuscripts”.

Why so? I know that I may be overthinking stuff, that is my mental specialty.

Partly, that is the problem here, but if it were simply an issue of finding a good textbook and not much else, I wouldn’t have posted the thread in the first place) I need to find textbooks that match several other constraints: (1) they follow the lecture courses well enough, i.e. they run...

I agree completely, and that is what I should generally strive for, but this advice has two hidden aspects to it: (1) It assumes you have enough time to prepare such a lesson; (2) You still have to get the ample information required from somewhere, and that is one of the main points I try to...

I am a freshman undergraduate, and I would say that in some form this issue translates to all the maths subjects out there. Especially Analysis, on our textbook on which I have spoken extensively as an example. I must add that one of the most feared scenarios of all for me is this: After I have...

TL;DR Summary: The university pure maths courses feel rough and uninsightful, yet exclude (temporally) the possibility of studying good texts. What and how does one study in order to attain such understanding as to be profound, but allowing, by structure, still to follow the curriculum...

I have hit a bit of a roadblock in my undergraduate studies. Our lectures assume that we should be taking notes, and that is entirely understandable: after all, what else can you be doing during a lecture besides listening and note-taking? However, I have not the foggiest idea as to how to...