Complete garbage, sorry. It is “funny animated charts”, not “reference works”. List of things with almost zero benefit that I will never read, like the 99.9% who saw this post. Couldn’t find ANYTHING useful, really , e.g.: 1) “The Princeton Companion to Mathematics”—is not about math but about “history of math”. Not even on subject. Math is not “collection of biographies of nearly 100 famous deceased mathematicians” 2) “Meditation”—give me books on HOW TO meditate, not on meditation locations lol. Location doesn’t mean anything, the process is essential. Whole topic is misguided 3...inf) same problems as for examples above
I agree that you can’t learn a subject from using reference works, and that they are very supplemental, but this comment comes off as pretty harsh! See Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering if you want to understand more where I’m coming from in the benefits of reference works.
Complete garbage, sorry. It is “funny animated charts”, not “reference works”. List of things with almost zero benefit that I will never read, like the 99.9% who saw this post. Couldn’t find ANYTHING useful, really , e.g.:
1) “The Princeton Companion to Mathematics”—is not about math but about “history of math”. Not even on subject. Math is not “collection of biographies of nearly 100 famous deceased mathematicians”
2) “Meditation”—give me books on HOW TO meditate, not on meditation locations lol. Location doesn’t mean anything, the process is essential. Whole topic is misguided
3...inf) same problems as for examples above
I agree that you can’t learn a subject from using reference works, and that they are very supplemental, but this comment comes off as pretty harsh! See Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering if you want to understand more where I’m coming from in the benefits of reference works.