I must have read this post when you first published it, but only now does it strike me as answering perfectly one of my need for deconfusion: building a reasonable map of vast territories of knowledge, to have more tools in mind when deconfusing. Especially with maths, I’ve been having the problem of always changing my focus, and never finishing textbooks.
But this is simply a Comprehensive Information Gathering exercice! The right way to go about it is to go through the wikipedia page on areas of mathematics; look at each sub area in turn; and get a grip on the history, the objects studied, and the fundamental theorems.
Honestly, this plan is the first one I imagined for this issue that sounds both fun and likely to work as I intended. Thanks so much!
I must have read this post when you first published it, but only now does it strike me as answering perfectly one of my need for deconfusion: building a reasonable map of vast territories of knowledge, to have more tools in mind when deconfusing. Especially with maths, I’ve been having the problem of always changing my focus, and never finishing textbooks.
But this is simply a Comprehensive Information Gathering exercice! The right way to go about it is to go through the wikipedia page on areas of mathematics; look at each sub area in turn; and get a grip on the history, the objects studied, and the fundamental theorems.
Honestly, this plan is the first one I imagined for this issue that sounds both fun and likely to work as I intended. Thanks so much!