Unlike most of my posts, this will be more retrospective than speculative. One of the questions I’m asked with unfortunate frequency is, “Lily, how do I learn X?” or some variation thereof. By my own admission, I am hardly an expert; I joke quite candidly that the COVID-19 lockdown and this past year has been effectively a hyperbolic time chamber of mathematics for me. However, it’s hard to argue that in this weird mess I’ve created I didn’t do at least a few things correctly, and I’d love to talk a bit meta about my methods for approaching learning and problems in general.
There is beauty in fundamentals.
There is beauty in fundamentals.
There is beauty in fundamentals.
Unlike most of my posts, this will be more retrospective than speculative. One of the questions I’m asked with unfortunate frequency is, “Lily, how do I learn X?” or some variation thereof. By my own admission, I am hardly an expert; I joke quite candidly that the COVID-19 lockdown and this past year has been effectively a hyperbolic time chamber of mathematics for me. However, it’s hard to argue that in this weird mess I’ve created I didn’t do at least a few things correctly, and I’d love to talk a bit meta about my methods for approaching learning and problems in general.