{"id":210,"date":"2016-04-04T19:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=210"},"modified":"2016-05-31T19:49:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T19:49:02","slug":"books-for-understanding-books-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Books For Understanding Books - Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is getting ridiculous. I know, I can only apologise. I'll write some maths on here at some point, I promise.<\/p>\n

It turned out that the super-valuable forum post I had on the OU forums has now been deleted. Apparently if a post isn't pinned it gets auto-nuked after two months. So now all that valuable information is gone.<\/p>\n

But let's not dwell on it. Especially when there's a new book looming!!!!!<\/p>\n

\"howToProveIt\"<\/p>\n

Now, despite the fact that I've read Lara Alcock's books about how to learn Analysis, and started Brannan's Analysis book (see earlier posts) I realised I was missing more foundation-level knowledge. How To Prove It by Daniel J. Velleman looks like it'll be the book to give it to me.\u00a0 I remember it as being recommended on the deleted forum post, and the reviews generally are very very positive.<\/p>\n

Already I've come to the end of the first (admittedly short) section and I can actually attempt all of the exercises! I totally understand everything he's saying and I really feel like I'm learning something with every page. At last!<\/p>\n

More of a proper review of this on the way, but for the moment I'll be nose-deep in this for the next couple of months...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So this is getting ridiculous. I know, I can only apologise. I'll write some maths on here at some point, I promise. It turned out that the super-valuable forum post I had on the OU forums has now been deleted. Apparently if a post isn't pinned it gets auto-nuked after two months. So now all … Continue reading Books For Understanding Books - Part 2<\/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":[14,8],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proofs","category-text-books","tag-proofs","tag-text-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adrianbell.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}