Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment · Dec 22, 2023
The very opposite is true: current textbooks are mostly crap, and increasingly so.
Read old books, the older the better, going back to Homer.
Florian Ederer@florianederer· Dec 22, 2023It's time to say it again:
There is no need to read the classics because the textbook treatments of their ideas are perfectly sufficient.
Have you ever met a physicist who said that you should read Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Love the Iliad and Odyssey
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