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I just had an idea. I thought of two bits of advice today that I often give as common mottoes. They are as general as the aphorisms found in fortune cookies. I could imagine that others have similar phrases they use or used to advise their students.
So here it is, the thread that gathers such puns.
I'll start with those phrases and hope to read many others:
1) Start by removing what disturbs you the most!
(Advice meant to tackle a problem by, e.g. removing asymmetries or by a reduction to special cases.)
2) Whenever you see a square, think of ##\mathrm{a^2-b^2=(a-b)(a+b)!}##
3) Writing is faster than thinking!
(Better to write down some additional lines than do too many - possibly wrong - steps in mind.)
So here it is, the thread that gathers such puns.
I'll start with those phrases and hope to read many others:
1) Start by removing what disturbs you the most!
(Advice meant to tackle a problem by, e.g. removing asymmetries or by a reduction to special cases.)
2) Whenever you see a square, think of ##\mathrm{a^2-b^2=(a-b)(a+b)!}##
3) Writing is faster than thinking!
(Better to write down some additional lines than do too many - possibly wrong - steps in mind.)
