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My black notepad

Posted in Books, University life with tags , on March 22, 2010 by xi'an

“I write notes to myself, explicit ones, with sentences, not just “try power series expansion” or “see Dunford-Schwartz for p>1.” I think by writing… When I started to prove theorems (the acceptably low-key phrase for the more stuffy-sounding “doing research”), I would keep writing, as if I was conducting a conversation between me and myself.” Paul R. Halmos, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography, 1985.