{"id":167,"date":"2015-10-30T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T15:17:43","slug":"books-for-understanding-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Books For Understanding Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn't help myself.<\/p>\n

I've bought another book.<\/p>\n

The reason I bought it is to help me with the book I'm currently reading... but it's not as bad as it sounds.<\/p>\n

The last Analysis query I had, I posted to the OU forums. As usual, my question was answered almost instantly in a concise and understandable way.\u00a0Awesome!<\/p>\n

However, there was another post a few days later suggesting that I read \"How To Think About Analysis\", another book by Lara Alcock.<\/p>\n

\"howToThinkAboutAnalysis\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Initially I thought it would be a bad idea to drop my current book about Analysis, and pick up a new one, but it turns out that after the first 50 pages, this book can be used as a companion to learning different sub-topics of Analysis. Specifically, after the first 50 pages, the remainder of the book is split into sections about Real Numbers, Sequences, Series, Continuity, Differentiability, and Integrability. Each sub-topic appears to be about 40-ish pages long, and can be read just before or during the actual study of each. Bite-size!<\/p>\n

Although I've not quite finished the first section yet, \u00a0I've already added several new strategies to my set of learning techniques. Despite the fact that the knock-on effect is that the learning process may become slower, the idea is that my knowledge and understanding of the material will become much much deeper.<\/p>\n

I'll try and give another review once I've completed the first part, the section on real numbers, and related it all to where I currently am in my larger Analysis text book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn't help myself. I've bought another book. The reason I bought it is to help me with the book I'm currently reading... but it's not as bad as it sounds. The last Analysis query I had, I posted to the OU forums. As usual, my question was answered almost instantly in a concise and … Continue reading Books For Understanding Books<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-text-books","tag-analysis","tag-text-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}