Here is how I often study #mathematics as a noob (with computer science background). I will use ChatGPT to draw parallels between what I’m working on day to day and have some orientation in, and what I’m studying (currently rosiak sheaf theory which is doing an excursion through topology, and because the rosiak is too messy and incomplete, using mendelson’s intro to topology to actually work things out).Are these connections valid or useful? Sometimes. There will always be something to match. But that doesn’t matter, what it allows me to do: learn more about the overall landscape of maths, to familiarize myself over and over with say, groups, group actions, different types of spaces. As I start to see these over and over in the wildest of places (“links between punk rock zines making and topology” is a fun one), I start to form my own connections.More concretely though, if I see something that catches my interest, I can ask for a path to it through the textbooks I own. Again, is it mea...
Here is how I often study #mathematics as a noob (with computer science background). I will use ChatGPT to draw parallel...
