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"Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true?
by tinym 14y ago
"Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?"
- DanBC 14y agoExcellent advice. Also, "try to explain to someone else what you know". That way you'll very quickly find out what you don't know from what you do know.