What a tiresome day. I hate "quantic definitions/notations", especially when the expositor doesn't even explain how to navigate from one to another. Another instance of a mathematical version of "physicist's freestyle manipulation of differentials as mere simple numbers".
>>12599153The best way I learn is through attempting a lot of problems. And at least on courses up to masters, you should be able to go well by doing that. Some people study by building intuition, mental maps and asking and answering their own questions about the subject, though. I didn't really attempt this yet, so I guess I can only say it didn't come naturally to me.
>>12600587>Another thing I know nothing about is how important your uni's ranking...Is there an easy way to find how it ranks globally? In terms of PhD program. Never searched about.
>I don't know who this Knuth isDonald Knuth, he's one of the giants in the intersection of math and computer science (from what I know). I've found the said bit of interview (see from 4:16 onwards):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyaYCLJQXw&list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzeNLngr1JqyQki3wdoGrCn&index=9 >Sure, you will have to play the social game and present yourself...This is the hard part, and where he plays very against me. But I'm being a broken record at this point.
>You have my permission to succeed or fail but not to give upRoger! Luckily we'll meet in Algebrahalla.
I think I'll stop pestering you with all my repetitive bs for a while, thanks for the attention. : )