Lessons from Gian-Carlo Rota

  • Twelve lessons from the famous mathematician and lecturer.
  • They relate largely to teaching and writing mathematics but, with Farnam Street’s magic commentary, they transcend to much of life.
  • A nice quote from Feynman as well – “Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’”
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