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I'm a lover of books about Mathematics. However, I have noticed it's quite hard to stay in touch with new releases or book reviews in the world of Mathematics. I use GoodReads for recommendations in most genres of Fiction and it does a good job, but it very rarely covers or recommends new books...

Please offer me your guidance, Micromass.

That's a lot of serious study. Are you sure October isn't too quick to finish this ?

You are right. Often, I'm too slow too. Sometimes, I spend over an hour just understanding two paragraphs of Art of Computer Programming and sometimes not even that !Deadlines could be flexible, but I badly need to finish books. Otherwise what happens is I feel like I've nothing t show for my...

Thank you for your kind words. Somehow, I've always had this mental block that it will take me months to finish a book. I had to force myself to say that I could do it in a week. Maybe a reason I can't finish books is because I don't believe I can. After reading what you wrote, I started feeling...

I have difficulty completing books that I start because I lose interest or motivation. So, I was thinking that it would be different if I had someone to maybe report my progress to. Here is what I propose. I will choose a book. For example, Gems on Geometry by John Barnes. I will set a target...

Can you tell me some ways to stay motivated ? The problem is I'm getting bored and losing interest very fast.

I want to have a deep understanding of probability. I've tried William Feller's first book on Probability, and E.T Jaynes' Probability theory - the logic of science (which is very different from most probability books.) But, neither books could hold my interest for long. The first was too...

There is a series of books called Kvant Selecta - They're pretty good too.

Thanks for the book recommendation.

I'm glad you're feeling great xD The behaviour of a simple some wave as a heat source was very well understood. But, the scientific community was lost with the more complicated sources real life had to offer. Fourier applied one of the great heuristic principles of mathematics, science and even...

Wow. I'm very impressed that you know multi variable calculus and differential equations already ! No. To be frank, I was always kind of weak in Physics. And, I'm now in college and didn't know about these Olympiad exams when I was in school. One book that I always found too difficult but has...

Have you done any number theory so far ?

What recommendations would you give to an undergraduate student to prepare himself to publish papers by the time he reaches graduate school ?

Oh wow. Congratulations on taking up such an initiative ! May I ask what your level of mathematical knowledge is ? I'm not familiar with what the Physics Olympiad demands. Does it have a no-calculus rule like the Mathematics Olympiad does ?