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by mathisfun123 1038 days ago
> Try harder problems.

What part of "apostol's calculus" and "hard DP" did you not understand?

I love when people are so confident in their reflexive dismissal that they're literally blinded by it. So confident that they don't even stop to consider whether their dogma might be wrong.
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consilient 1038 days ago
> apostol's calculus

is hard for a calculus book, i.e. is an introductory real analysis book. If you can master analysis at the level of baby Rudin without doing hundreds of problems, you're very talented. If you still don't need to do hundreds of problems by the time you finish papa Rudin, you're a mathematical genius.

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mathisfun123 1038 days ago
>is hard for a calculus book

Yes but I was talking about calculus as an anecdotal example. Not analysis.

> baby Rudin

This is definitely starting to look like "no true Scotsman". Anyway I did the regular amount (5-10) per section and got an A.

> you're very talented.

Trust me not the case. Just average person doing average number of pset problems.

> papa Rudin

I didn't read this, I went on to read Schilling's Measures, Integrals, and Martingales instead because I already knew enough functional analysis and wasn't interested in complex analysis.

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