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1981 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Read the Masters!

verfasst von : Harold M. Edwards

Erschienen in: Mathematics Tomorrow

Verlag: Springer New York

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It is as good an idea to read the masters now as it was in Abel’s time. The best mathematicians know this and do it all the time. Unfortunately, students of mathematics normally spend their early years using textbooks (which may be, but usually aren’t, written by masters) and taking lecture courses which are self-contained and make little or no reference to the primary literature of the subject. The students are left to discover on their own the wisdom of Abel’s advice. In this they are being cheated.

Metadaten
Titel
Read the Masters!
verfasst von
Harold M. Edwards
Copyright-Jahr
1981
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8127-3_11